Symplectic spreads and permutation polynomials (Q4832279)

The authors discuss the known examples of symplectic spreads of PG\((3,q)\). The table of these examples is done. At first they formulate and show the following theorem: The set of totally isotopic lines \(l_\infty\cup \{\langle ((0,1,x,y),(1,0,-y,g(x,y))) \rangle|x,y\in \text{GF}(q)\}\) is a symplectic spread if and only if \(x\mapsto g(x, ax - b) + a^2 x\) is a permutation of GF\((q)\) for all \(a,b\in\text{GF}(q)\). It allows them to do an algebraic proof of the existence of the Tits-Lüneburg spread of \(W(2^{2h+1})\) and the Ree-Tits spread of \(W(3^{2h+1})\), as well as it leads to a new family of low-degree permutation polynomials over GF\((3^{2h+1})\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1048.11003].