Veldkamp-space aspects of a sequence of nested binary Segre varieties (Q747602)

Summary: Let \(S_{(N)} \equiv \operatorname{PG}(1,\,2) \times \operatorname{PG}(1,\,2) \times \cdots \times \operatorname{PG}(1,\,2)\) be a Segre variety that is an \(N\)-fold direct product of projective lines of size three. Given two geometric hyperplanes \(H'\) and \(H''\) of \(S_{(N)}\), let us call the triple \(\{H', H'', \overline{H' \Delta H''}\}\) the Veldkamp line of \(S_{(N)}\). We demonstrate, for the sequence \(2 \leq N \leq 4\), that the properties of geometric hyperplanes of \(S_{(N)}\) are fully encoded in the properties of Veldkamp \textit{lines} of \(S_{(N-1)}\). Using this property, a complete classification of all types of geometric hyperplanes of \(S_{(4)}\) is provided. Employing the fact that, for \(2 \leq N \leq 4\), the (ordinary part of) Veldkamp space of \(S_{(N)}\) is \(\operatorname{PG}(2^N-1,2)\), we further describe which types of geometric hyperplanes of \(S_{(N)}\) lie on a certain hyperbolic quadric \(\mathcal{Q}_0^+(2^N-1,2) \subset \operatorname{PG}(2^N-1,2)\) that contains the \(S_{(N)}\) and is invariant under its stabilizer group; in the \(N=4\) case we also single out those of them that correspond, via the Lagrangian Grassmannian of type \(LG(4,8)\), to the set of 2295 maximal subspaces of the symplectic polar space \(\mathcal{W}(7,2)\).