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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Completeness of Normal Rational Curves

L. Storme
Seminar of Geometry and Combinatorics, University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022428405084

Abstract

The completeness of normal rational curves, considered as ( q + 1)-arcs in PG( n, q), is investigated. Previous results of Storme and Thas are improved by using a result by Kovács. This solves the problem completely for large prime numbers q and odd nonsquare prime powers q = p 2 h+1 with p prime, , where p 0( h) is an odd prime number which depends on h.

Pages: 197–202

Keywords: $k$-arcs; normal rational curves; M.D.S. codes

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