Opposite relation on dual polar spaces and half-spin Grassmann spaces

DOI10.1007/S00025-009-0369-XzbMATH Open1181.51022arXiv0803.1133OpenAlexW2062543627MaRDI QIDQ1035232FDOQ1035232

Mark Pankov, M. Kwiatkowski

Publication date: 2 November 2009

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize the collinearity (adjacency) relation of half-spin Grassmann spaces in terms of the relation to be opposite in the corresponding collinearity graphs. Also we show that this characterization does not hold for dual polar spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1133

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zbMATH Keywords

dual polar spacehalf-spin Grassmann space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35)

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