Association schemes from the action of PGL(2, q) fixing a nonsingular conic in PG(2, q)
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The group PGL(2, q) has an embedding into PGL(3, q) such that it acts as the group fixing a nonsingular conic in PG(2, q). This action affords a coherent configuration R(q) on the set L(q) of non-tangent lines of the conic. We show that the relations can be described by using the cross-ratio. Our results imply that the restrictions R+(q) and R−(q) of R(q) to the set L+(q) of secant (hyperbolic) lines and to the set L−(q) of exterior (elliptic) lines, respectively, are both association schemes; moreover, we show that the elliptic scheme R−(q) is pseudocyclic. We further show that the coherent configurations R(q2) with q even allow certain fusions. These provide a 4-class fusion of the hyperbolic scheme R+(q), and 3-class fusions and 2-class fusions (strongly regular graphs) of both schemes R+(q) and R−(q). The fusion results for the hyperbolic case are known, but our approach here as well as our results in the elliptic case are new.
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