On projective planes of order 20
Properties of -ary groups connected with the affine geometry are considered. Some conditions for an -ary -group to be derived from a binary group are given. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an -ary group -derived from an additive group of a field to be an -group are obtained. The existence of non-commutative -ary -groups which are not derived from any group of arity for every , is proved.
Bz the quadrileteral condition in a given net there is meant the following implication: If are arbitrary points, no three of them lie on the same line, with coll (collinearity) for any five from six couples then there follows the collinearity coll for the remaining couple . In the article there is proved the every net satisfying the preceding configuration condition is necessarity the Ostrom net (i.e., the net over a field). Conversely, every Ostrom net satisfies the above configuration...
We call metamorphosis of a given category an autoequivalence functor up to within natural equivalence. We show that, given a group G, the group of metamorphoses of the category of G-sets (as well as the corresponding group for ?sufficiently big? subcategories) may be naturally identified to the group of outer automorphism of G. We get by this way a natural description of a group of known operations on tessellations of a surface: the identity operation, the Poincaré duality, and four others which...