The Lunelli-SCE Hyperoval in PG(2,16)
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This irregular hyperoval, found by computer search in 1958, has many interesting and unusual properties. We provide a synthetic construction of this hyperoval, use the construction to determine the full group of automorphisms of the hyperoval, provide computer-free proofs of its known properties and introduce some new results concerning the intersection of this hyperoval and conics in the given plane.
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