Hyperplanes of Hermitian dual polar spaces of rank 3 containing a quad (Q281310)

A \textit{hyperplane} of a point-line geometry \(\mathbb{G}\) is a set of points meeting each line in either a singleton or the whole line. If \(\mathbb{G}\) admits a full projective embedding, a way to obtain hyperplanes is given by intersecting an embedded copy of \(\mathbb{G}\) with an hyperplane of the ambient projective space. Hyperplanes that can be obtained in this way are called \textit{classical}. A number of problems arise: {\parindent=0.6cm \begin{itemize}\item[--] For a given point-line geometry \(\mathbb{G}\) classify all its hyperplanes or all hyperplanes under suitable additional restrictions. \item[--] For a given fully embeddable point-line geometry \(\mathbb{G}\), determine whether all its hyperplanes are classical or find sufficient conditions that guarantee that a hyperplane is classical. \end{itemize}} The above problems have already been considered for several point-line geometries. All hyperplanes of finite Hermitian dual polar spaces of rank \(3\) have been classified. For infinite dual polar spaces, however, it seems non possible to classify all hyperplanes due to the possibility to construct hyperplanes that invokes transfinite recursion. In this paper, the author give a classification of the hyperplanes under the additional condition that there are deep quads.