The inherited-arc conjecture for tangent conics in André planes of order q^3
The inherited-arc conjecture for tangent conics in André planes of order q^3
Let be a projective plane with even and . Let be a conic with nucleus tangent to the line at , and let be an André set of with transversal points . For the André replacement net , write for the set corresponding to the affine points of . Inherited-arc conjecture. If
then is not an arc in the André plane for either . Computer searches for and small found no counterexamples, while the complementary case in which both and are transversal points yields inherited arcs; the conjecture asserts that no further cases occur.
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S. G. Barwick, Alice M. W. Hui and Wen-Ai Jackson, “Inherited arcs in André planes of even order”, arXiv:2606.14345 (2026).
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