Dense near polygons with hexes of type \(H^D(5,q^{2}), Q(5,q)\times L_{q+1}\) or \(Q(5,q) \otimes Q(5,q)\) (Q2497964)

A near \(2d\)-gon is a connected graph of diameter \(d\) with the property that for every vertex \(x\) and every maximal clique \(M\) there exists a unique vertex \(x'\) in \(M\) nearest to \(x\). If a graph is a near polygon then the point-line incidence structure, where points are the vertices and the lines are the maximal cliques, is a partial linear space which is also called a near polygon. A near polygon is dense if every line is incident with at least three points and if every two points at distance \(2\) have at least two common neighbours. A line \(L_{q + 1}\) with \(q + 1\) points is a near \(2\)-gon, the generalized quadrangle \(Q (5, q)\) arises from the points and lines of a nonsingular elliptic quadric in the projective space \(PG (5, q)\). If \(H (5, q^2 )\) is a nonsingular hermitian variety in \(PG (5, q^2 )\) then \(H^D (5, q^2 )\) denotes the incidence structure the points respectively lines of which are the \(3\)-dimensional respectively \(2\)-dimensional subspaces of \(H (5, q^2 )\). The author classifies all dense near \(2n\)-gons \(\mathcal S\) with \(n \geq 3\) such that every subhexagon of \(\mathcal S\) is one of the following types: \(H^D (5, q^2 )\), the product near hexagon \(Q (5, q) \times L_{q + 1}\) or a glued near hexagon of type \(Q (5, q) \otimes Q (5, q)\).