The geometry of secants in embedded polar spaces (Q881814)

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The geometry of secants in embedded polar spaces
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    The geometry of secants in embedded polar spaces (English)
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    18 May 2007
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    In this study the author considers a polar space \(\mathcal S\) weakly embedded in a projective space \(\mathbb P\). A secant of \(\mathcal S\) is the intersection of the point set of \(\mathcal S\) with a line of \(\mathbb P\) spanned by two non-collinear points of \(\mathcal S\). The geometry consisting of the points of \(\mathcal S\) and as lines the secants is so-called Delta space. The author gives a characterization of this and some related geometries.
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    polar space
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    Delta space
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    transversal space
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    geometry of tangents
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    geometry of secants
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