Incidence and combinatorial properties of linear complexes

DOI10.1007/S00025-007-0275-ZMaRDI QIDQ927813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corrado Zanella, Hans Havlicek

Publication date 10 June 2008

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1344

zbMATH Keywords

polaritylinear complexline spreadgrassmannianline partition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Spreads and packing problems in finite geometry (51E23)

Abstract: In this paper a generalisation of the notion of polarity is exhibited which allows to completely describe, in an incidence-geometric way, the linear complexes of $h$-subspaces. A generalised polarity is defined to be a partial map which maps $(h-1)$-subspaces to hyperplanes, satisfying suitable linearity and reciprocity properties. Generalised polarities with the null property give rise to a linear complexes and vice versa. Given that there exists for $h>1$ a linear complex of $h$-subspaces which contains no star --this seems to be an open problem over an arbitrary ground field --the combinatorial structure of a partition of the line set of the projective space into non-geometric spreads of its hyperplanes can be obtained. This line partition has an additional linearity property which turns out to be characteristic.

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