Ovoids and Translation Ovals (Q4399233)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1179959
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1179959 |
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Ovoids and Translation Ovals (English)
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21 June 1999
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elliptic quadric
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Tits ovoid
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translation oval
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The only known classes of ovoids in 3-dimensional projective spaces over fields of even order are the elliptic quadrics and the Tits ovoids. The authors present a common characterization of these two classes as follows. An ovoid \(\mathcal O\) of PG\((3,q)\), where \(q > 2\) is even, is an elliptic quadric or a Tits ovoid if and only if \(\mathcal O\) admits a tangent line \(L\) such that all secant planes of \(\mathcal O\) containing \(L\) intersect \(\mathcal O\) in a translation oval and \(L\) is an axis of at least one of these ovals. This result generalizes known characterizations of elliptic quadrics, but it seems to be the first one of its type which includes the Tits ovoids.
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