Complements of Grassmann substructures in projective Grassmannians (Q744033)
From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
---|---|---|---|
English | Complements of Grassmann substructures in projective Grassmannians |
scientific article |
Statements
Complements of Grassmann substructures in projective Grassmannians (English)
0 references
2 October 2014
0 references
Let \(V\) be a vector space of dimension \(n\), take two subspaces \(Z\subseteq W\) and define the set \({\mathcal D}\) of outer subspaces \(U\) by \(Z\not\subseteq U\) or \(U\not\subseteq W\). We assume that \({\mathcal D}\) is not empty. For \(1\leq k\leq n-2\), the \(k\)-th Grassmannian \(G_{k}\) is an incidence structure consisting of the \(k\)-dimensional elements of \({\mathcal D}\) and of the \(k+1\)-dimensional elements of \({\mathcal D}\) with \(\subset\) as incidence relation. The author shows that the underlying projective space as well as the maximal possible \(Z\) and the minimal possible \(W\) can be recovered from any of the \(G_{k}\)'s. This is also rephrased into a theorem about the extension of automorphisms.
0 references
slit space
0 references
Grassmannian
0 references
projective space
0 references
affine space
0 references