• Title of article

    Is there a McLaughlin geometry?

  • Author/Authors

    Leonard H. Soicher، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    248
  • To page
    255
  • Abstract
    It has long been an open problem whether or not there exists a partial geometry with parameters (s,t,α)=(4,27,2). Such a partial geometry, which we call a McLaughlin geometry, would have the McLaughlin graph as point graph. In this note we use tools from computational group theory and computational graph theory to show that a McLaughlin geometry cannot have certain automorphisms, nor can such a geometry satisfy the Axiom of Pasch.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Algebra
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Journal of Algebra
  • Record number

    697518