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projectiveGeometry -- projective geometry of dimension n over F_p

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Description

The projective geometry of dimension n over F_p is the matroid whose ground set consists of points in an n-dimensional projective space over F_p. The matroid structure is precisely the simple matroid associated to the realizable matroid of (F_p)^(n+1) (i.e. all vectors in an (n+1)-dimensional vector space over F_p) - the origin (being a loop) has been removed, and a representative is chosen for all parallel classes (= lines).

Note that projective space has a stratification into affine spaces (one of each smaller dimension). In particular, deleting any hyperplane from PG(n, p) gives AG(n, p).

i1 : PG22 = projectiveGeometry(2, 2)

o1 = a "matroid" of rank 3 on 7 elements

o1 : Matroid
 
i2 : PG22 == specificMatroid "fano"

o2 = true
 
i3 : A = transpose sub(matrix toList(((3:0)..(3:2-1))/toList), ZZ/2) -- all vectors in (ZZ/2)^3

o3 = | 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 |
     | 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 |
     | 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 |

             ZZ 3      ZZ 8
o3 : Matrix (--)  <-- (--)
              2         2
 
i4 : areIsomorphic(PG22, simpleMatroid matroid A)

o4 = true
 
i5 : PG32 = projectiveGeometry(3, 2)

o5 = a "matroid" of rank 4 on 15 elements

o5 : Matroid
 
i6 : getRepresentation PG32

o6 = | 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
     | 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 |
     | 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 |
     | 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 |

             ZZ 4      ZZ 15
o6 : Matrix (--)  <-- (--)
              2         2
 
i7 : H = first hyperplanes PG32

o7 = set {8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14}

o7 : Set
 
i8 : areIsomorphic(affineGeometry(3, 2), PG32 \ H)

o8 = true

See also

Ways to use projectiveGeometry:

For the programmer

The object projectiveGeometry is a method function.