A combinatorial characterization of the Klein quadric

DOI10.1007/BF01229255MaRDI QIDQ2563496zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eva Ferrara Dentice, Pia Maria Lo Re, Nicola Melone

Publication date 7 December 1997

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01229255

Grassmann geometries Klein quadric Tallini sets

Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35) Projective analytic geometry (51N15)

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Let \(P\) be a projective space, coordinatized over a skewfield \(K\) with more than two elements. A Tallini set is a spanning subset of \(P\) which contains every line with at least three points in common with it. Assume that the Tallini set \(T\) in \(P\) contains a line, is connected, and no point on \(T\) is collinear with every other point of \(T\). If \(T\) satisfies one more technical condition, then \(K\) is a field, the dimension of \(P\) is 5, and \(T\) is the hyperbolic quadric \(Q^+_5\). Thus \(Q^+_5\) is characterized in terms of incidence geometry. The methods presented in the paper also allow a combinatorial proof of a result of \textit{H. Havlicek} [J. Geom. 16, 152-180 (1981; Zbl 0463.51003 and Zbl 0463.51004)], which states that if a Grassmann geometry over some skewfield \(K'\) can be embedded into \(P,\) then \(K\) and \(K'\) are isomorphic fields.

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