On invariant notions of Segre varieties in binary projective spaces (Q664378)

The paper considers invariant notions in the ambient space of certain Segre varieties over fields of characteristic 2, where invariant refers to the stabiliser of the Segre variety in the projective group of the ambient space. Specifically, the authors investigate Segre varieties of \(PG(2^m-1,2)\) that are direct products of \(m\) copies of \(PG(1,2)\). They prove that there exists a hyperbolic quadric that contains the Segre variety and is invariant under its projective stabiliser group. By embedding \(PG(2^m-1,2)\) into \(PG(2^m-1,4)\) they produce a basis of the larger space that is invariant under this group as well. This basis is shown to split into two subsets whose spans are either real or complex-conjugate subspaces determined by the parity of \(m\). In the complex-conjugate case, these spans can be viewed as indicator sets of an invariant geometric spread, under this group, of lines of \(PG(2^m-1,2)\). The case when \(m=3\) is examined to illustrate the theory. For \(m\leq 3\) the invariants described provide sufficient information for the classification of the points and hyperplanes of the ambient space of the Segre variety.