A characterization of Hermitian varieties as codewords

zbMATH Open1390.51005arXiv1706.06578MaRDI QIDQ1753045FDOQ1753045

Angela Aguglia, Leo Storme, Zsuzsa Weiner, Daniele Bartoli

Publication date: 25 May 2018

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that the Hermitian varieties are codewords in the code defined by the points and hyperplanes of the projective spaces $PG(r,q^2)$. In finite geometry, also quasi-Hermitian varieties are defined. These are sets of points of $PG(r,q^2)$ of the same size as a non-singular Hermitian variety of $PG(r,q^2)$, having the same intersection sizes with the hyperplanes of $PG(r,q^2)$. In the planar case, this reduces to the definition of a unital. A famous result of Blokhuis, Brouwer, and Wilbrink states that every unital in the code of the points and lines of $PG(2,q^2)$ is a Hermitian curve. We prove a similar result for the quasi-Hermitian varieties in $PG(3,q^2)$, $q=p^h$, as well as in $PG(r,q^2)$, $q=p$ prime, or $q=p^2$, $p$ prime, and $rgeq4$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06578

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zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian varietyquasi-Hermitian varietyincidence vectorcodes of projective spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Linear codes (general theory) (94B05) Linear codes and caps in Galois spaces (51E22)

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