Problems by the wayside
Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)
In this unusual but mighty paper, the author touches three different subjects in incidence geometry (mainly finite geometry) and discusses the interplay of several mathematical objects and theories. Let us review these three parts. In the first section, the central object is a locally Hermitian ovoid of the generalized quadrangle \(H(3,q^2)\), i.e., a set of \(1+q^3\) points of the nonsingular Hermitian surface \(H(3,q^2)\) in \(PG(3,q^2)\) lying on \(q^2\) nondegenerate lines through one fixed point of \(H(3,q^2)\). The author relates it to subsets of points of \(AG(2,q)\) whose secants avoid certain slopes; sets of \(q^2\) lines of \(PG(2,q^2)\) pairwise meeting off a Hermitian cone; locally Hermitian \(1\)-systems on \(Q^-(5,q)\) (so locally Hermitian spreads of that quadrangle); line spreads of \(PG(3,q)\) and translation planes of order \(q^2\) with kernel \(GF(q)\). Furthermore, the author discusses \((0,2)\)-Hermitian sets of \(H(3,q^2)\) and applications. In the second section, ovoids, spreads and \(m\)-systems are discussed. The main target geometries are the polar spaces here, but the author proposes to try to generalize to other interesting geometries, in particular geometries related to buildings of exceptional type. For this, Kleidman's view on the definition of an ovoid seems to be a good starting point. An interesting problem in that respect is how one could define \(m\)-systems, \(0\neq m\neq n-1\), in polar spaces of rank \(n\) using the Kleidman view (hence without including the size of the object in the definition). Furthermore, the author applies some thoughts to two specific problems: that of ovoidal hyperplanes in dual polar spaces (geometric hyperplanes which are ovoids), and disjoint ovoids of \(Q^+(7,q)\). In the third section, the diagonal axiom for finite geometries is the central item. The oriflamme phenomenon is discussed, and the author introduces blocks in certain geometries (subspaces generated by any two intersecting lines contained in it). The connection with the diagonal axiom is explained. These ideas are then used to provide characterization results for a certain class of semi-partial geometries, for symplectic hyperbolic line spaces, and for half Grassmann spaces. This is an extraordinary paper written by an extraordinary mathematician.
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- m-systems of polar spaces and SPG reguli
- A remark on non-uniform hyperplanes of finite thick dual polar spaces
- Characterization of projective incidence structures
- Constructions of Polygons From Buildings
- Flat lax and weak lax embeddings of finite generalized hexagons
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- Hyperplanes of dual polar spaces of rank 3 with no subquadrangular quad
- New families of ovoids in \(O\) \(+_ 8\)
- On a Characterization of Grassmann Space Representing the h-Dimensional Subspaces in a Projective Space
- On linear representations of \((\alpha,\beta)\)-geometries
- Ovoidal translation planes
- Points and lines. Characterizing the classical geometries
- Some Geometries Associated with Parabolic Representations of Groups of Lie Type
- Spreads and ovoids in finite generalized quadrangles
- Symplectic geometries, transvection groups, and modules
- The dual of Pasch's axiom
- The uniqueness of the 1-system of \(Q^-(7,q)\), \(q\) odd
- Uniform hyperplanes of finite dual polar spaces of rank 3
- Ovoids of \(\mathcal{H}(3, q^2)\), \(q\) odd, admitting a group of order \(\frac{(q + 1)^3}{2}\)
- Pseudo-ovals of elliptic quadrics as Delsarte designs of association schemes
- On ovoids of the generalized quadrangle \(H(3,q^2)\)
- On semiclassical translation ovoids of \(H(3,q^2)\)
- Special sets of the Hermitian surface and Segre invariants
- Blocking sets and semifields
- Maximal Subgroups of Finite Orthogonal Groups Stabilizing Spreads of Lines
- The thickness of Schubert cells as incidence structures
- New non-existence proofs for ovoids of Hermitian polar spaces and hyperbolic quadrics
- Hermitian indicator sets
- Shult sets and translation ovoids of the Hermitian surface
- Spreads of PG(3, q) and ovoids of polar spaces
- Special sets of the Hermitian surface and indicator sets
- On the Hermitian Veronesean
- Planes and processes
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