The collinearity graph of the O^-(8,2) quadric is not geometrisable

DOI10.1023/A:1008234630713MaRDI QIDQ1378884zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pratima Panigrahi

Publication date 24 July 1998

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008234630713

zbMATH Keywords

collinearity graphgeometric graphspartial geometriesstrongly regular graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30) Finite partial geometries (general), nets, partial spreads (51E14)

Review text

The author proves a conjecture of the reviewer and \textit{V. D. Tonchev} [Sankhyā, Ser. A 54, Spec. Vol., 137-145 (1992; Zbl 0883.51003)], that the collinearity graph of the elliptic quadric in \(\text{PG}(7,2)\) is not geometric. By considering the three hyperplanes through a \(\text{PG}(5,2)\) that intersects the quadric in a hyperbolic quadric, the graph can be split in 4 disjoint subgraphs, one of them being the line graph of \(\text{PG}(3,2)\), while the other three graphs are the complements of the triangular graph T(8). The author uses this fact to give a nice combinatorial and computer-free proof of the conjecture.

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