Isometric embeddings of half-cube graphs in half-spin Grassmannians (Q463040)

Summary: Let \(\Pi\) be a polar space of type \mathsf{D}\(_{n}\). Denote by \(\mathcal{G}_{\delta}(\Pi), \delta\in \{+,-\}\) the associated half-spin Grassmannians and write \(\Gamma_{\delta}(\Pi)\) for the corresponding half-spin Grassmann graphs. In the case when \(n\geqslant 4\) is even, the apartments of \(\mathcal G_{\delta}(\Pi)\) will be characterized as the images of isometric embeddings of the half-cube graph \(\frac{1}{2}H_n\) in \(\Gamma_\delta(\Pi)\). As an application, we describe all isometric embeddings of \(\Gamma_{\delta}(\Pi)\) in the half-spin Grassmann graphs associated to a polar space of type \mathsf{D}\(_{n'}\) under the assumption that \(n\geqslant 6\) is even.