Automorphisms of (Affine) SL(2,q)-Unitals

Abstract

$\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$-unitals are unitals of order $q$ admitting a regular action of $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$ on the complement of some block. They can be obtained from affine $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$-unitals via parallelisms. We compute a sharp upper bound for automorphism groups of affine $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$-unitals and show that exactly two parallelisms are fixed by all automorphisms. In $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$-unitals obtained as closures of affine $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$-unitals via those two parallelisms, we show that there is one block fixed under the full automorphism group.

15 pages; references updated. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.10129

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