IJPAM: Volume 56, No. 2 (2009)

BLOCKING SETS OF HIRZEBRUCH
SURFACES OVER A FINITE FIELD

E. Ballico
Department of Mathematics
University of Trento
38 123 Povo (Trento) - Via Sommarive, 14, ITALY
e-mail: [email protected]


Abstract.Here we study the blocking sets of Hirzebruch surfaces over $\mathbb {F}_q$, showing the huge differences with respect to the classical case of $PG(n,q)$.

Received: September 7, 2009

AMS Subject Classification: 14N05, 12E20, 14J99

Key Words and Phrases: blocking set, Hirzebruch surface, finite field, finite projective space

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2009
Volume: 56
Issue: 2