Characterizing symplectic quadrangles by their derivations

DOI10.1007/BF01198648MaRDI QIDQ1193283zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andreas E. Schroth

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01198648

zbMATH Keywords

derivationslocally compact connected quadranglessymplectic quadrangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Topological nonlinear incidence structures (51H15)

Review text

The author shows that a generalized quadrangle \({\mathcal Q}\) is isomorphic to the geometry of absolute points and lines with respect to a symplectic polarity of a 3-dimensional projective space if and only if the derivation at every point of \({\mathcal Q}\) yields a projective plane. The proof is achieved as a nice application of the axiom system of Winternitz. Furthermore, the author examines the case of locally compact connected quadrangles more closely and gives several characterizations of the symplectic quadrangles over the fields \(\mathbb{R}\) and \(\mathbb{C}\).

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