Embeddings of geometries in finite projective spaces: A survey (Q4385474)

A point-line geometry is said to be laxly embedded into a projective space if the image of the point set generates the whole space. It is said to be fully embedded if the image of the set of points on a line forms a complete line in the projective space. Weak embeddings, somewhat in between the two, are also considered. The author gives a survey (without proofs) of the various embeddings into finite projective spaces of many types of finite geometries such as generalized polygons, polar spaces, partial geometries, etc. In the course, the author announces some results he obtained together with Van Maldeghem. Some open problems and conjectures are presented, as well. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0883.00017].