Automorphisms of spine spaces

DOI10.1007/BF02941665MaRDI QIDQ1858631zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 13 February 2003

Published in Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02941665

affine Grassmann space automorphism spine space

Homomorphism, automorphism and dualities in linear incidence geometry (51A10) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35)

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The notion of a spine space has been introduced by the first author in J. Geom. 72, 172-187 (2001; Zbl 1003.51001). Such a space consists of all \(k\)-flats in a projective space \(P\) (of all linear subspaces of a vector space \(V\)) which intersect a given arbitrary subspace \(S\) of \(P\) in an \(m\)-flat. The special case that \(S\) is a hyperplane and \(m=k{-}1\) yields affine Grassmann spaces. Let \(W\) be a fixed subspace of \(V\) and write \({\mathcal F}_{k,m}(W)\) for the set of all \(k\)-dimensional subspaces \(U<V\) such that \(\dim U\cap W = m\). The spine space determined by \(k, m\), and \(W\) is denoted by \({\mathbf A}_{k,m}(W)\). A \(k\)-pencil consists of all \(k\)-subspaces \(U\) of a \((k+1)\)-dimensional subspace \(B\leq V\) containing a given \((k-1)\)-subspace \(H\) of \(B\). The geometry \({\mathbf P}_k\) has the \(k\)-subspaces \(U<V\) as points and the \(k\)-pencils as lines. Theorem. Each automorphism of \({\mathbf A}_{k,m}(W)\) is the restriction to \({\mathcal F}_{k,m}(W)\) of an automorphism of \({\mathbf P}_k\), it is induced either by a semi-linear bijection of \(V\) or by a sesqui-linear form on \(V\).

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