User:Jeremydover/sandbox/Desarguesian plane of order 3

Projective plane of order 3
Order3
Lenz-Barlotti ClassVII.2
Automorphisms
Point Orbit Lengths13
Line Orbit Lengths13
PropertiesDesarguesian
Self-dual

Construction

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This plane can be constructed using the standard vector space construction with a three-dimensional vector space over the finite field GF(3).

Ovals and Hyperovals

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This plane has odd order, so by Qvist's theorem it does not have a hyperoval. Being a Desarguesian, this plane does have ovals, and by Segré's theorem, all ovals in this plane are conics, being the set of absolute points of an orthogonal polarity.

Subplanes

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Since this plane is a Desarguesian plane of prime order, it has no proper subplanes.

Unitals

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Since the order of this plane is not square, it does not have a unital.