On tight sets of hyperbolic quadrics (Q6116408)

A tight set \({\mathcal T} \) of points of a finite polar space \({\mathcal P}\) of rank \(r\) of \({\mathbb F}_q\) with \(\kappa\) the average number of points of \({\mathcal T}\) collinear to a given point satisfies \(\kappa = |{\mathcal T} | \frac{q^{r-1}-1}{q^r-1} + q^{r-1}.\) The author generalizes a previous result by the author and \textit{K. Metsch} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 127, 224--242 (2014; Zbl 1302.51008)] to give that the parameter \(\chi\) of a tight set \({\mathcal T}\) of a hyperbolic quadric \(Q^+(2n+1,q)\) of odd rank \(n+1\) satisfies \(\binom{x}{2} + w(w-\chi) \equiv 0 \pmod{q+1},\) where \(w\) is the number of points of \({\mathcal T}\) in any generator of \(Q^+(2n+1,q).\)