A family of hemisystems on the parabolic quadrics (Q778718)

An incidence structure \(\mathcal{S}= (\mathcal{P}, \mathcal{M}, I)\) with points \(\mathcal{P}\) and maximals \(\mathcal{M}\) has order \((s, t)\) if there are \(s +1\) points incident with every maximal, and \(t +1\) maximals incident with every point. A hemisystem is a subset \(H\) of \(M\) such that every point is incident with \((t+1)/2\) maximals of \(H\) (thus \(t\) has to be odd). In the paper under review, the authors construct a new infinite family of hemisystems of the parabolic quadric \(\mathcal{Q}(2d, q)\) for \( d\ge 2\) and \(q\) odd. Note that prior to the results contained in this paper, no families of hemisystems of \(\mathcal{Q}(2d, q)\) were known for \(d\ge 4\).