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Every collineation group has order 1, 2, or 3

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The strongest published symmetry restriction leaves only trivial, involutory, or order-three collineation groups.

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Recorded status: established

Recorded scope: the full class of projective planes of order 12 and every collineation group acting on any such plane

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Originating problem: A projective plane of order 12

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Every collineation group has order 1, 2, or 3
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2Authored explanation

Akiyama, Suetake, and Tanaka prove that a projective plane of order 12 cannot admit a collineation group of order 4. Their paper combines this result with the earlier exclusions and states the resulting classification: \[ |G|\in\{1,2,3\} \] for every collineation group \(G\) of a hypothetical plane of order 12. In particular, its full collineation group would have one of these three orders.

This theorem sharply limits symmetry-based enumeration. A search restricted to automorphism groups of order at least 4 covers an empty class. A complete computation must still handle planes with a trivial group or a group of order 2 or 3.

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3Evidence

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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Kenzi Akiyama, Chihiro Suetake, and Masaki Tanaka, Projective planes of order 12 do not have a collineation group of order 4, Journal of Combinatorial Designs 31(2) (2023), 87-123, abstract and main theorem

4What was measured

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excluded order9urlhttps://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/74/ajc_v74_p112.pdflocatorAkiyama, Suetake, and Tanaka, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 74(1) (2019), main theorem

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