Characterising elliptic solids of q ( 4 , q ), q even

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2020.111857MaRDI QIDQ2174604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alice M. W. Hui, Wen-Ai Jackson, S. G. Barwick

Publication date 21 April 2020

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03985

zbMATH Keywords

hyperovalshyperplanesprojective geometryquadrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: Let $E$ be a set of solids (hyperplanes) in $PG(4,q)$, $q$ even, $q>2$, such that every point of $PG(4,q)$ lies in either $0$, $frac12q^3$ or $frac12(q^3-q^2)$ solids of $E$, and every plane of $PG(4,q)$ lies in either $0$, $frac12q$ or $q$ solids of $E$. This article shows that $E$ is either the set of solids that are disjoint from a hyperoval, or the set of solids that meet a non-singular quadric $Q(4,q)$ in an elliptic quadric.

Review text

This paper belongs to the field of characterizing geometrically defined objects in finite projective spaces in purely combinatorial terms. The authors show that a set \(\mathcal E\) of solids (or hyperplanes) of \(\mathrm{PG}(4,q)\), \(q > 2\) even, consists precisely of the solids meeting a nonsingular quadric in an elliptic quadric if and only \(\mathcal E\) has the following properties: Every point of \(\mathrm{PG}((4, q)\) lies in either \(0\), \(\frac{1}{2} (q^3 - q^2 )\) or \(\frac{1}{2} q^3\) solids of \(\mathcal E\), every plane of \(\mathrm{PG}(4,q)\) lies in either \(0\), \(\frac{1}{2} q\) or \(q\) solids of \(\mathcal E\), and there exists a line of \(\mathrm{PG}(4,q)\) that lies in exactly \(\frac{1}{2}q(q+1)\) solids of \(\mathcal E\). If one omits the last condition, then \(\mathcal E\) may also consist of the solids that are disjoint from a hyperoval.

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