On absolute points of correlations of PG(2,q^n)

DOI10.37236/8920MaRDI QIDQ2185222zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jozefien D'haeseleer, Nicola Durante

Publication date 4 June 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05698

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zbMATH Keywords

sesquilinear forms, correlations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21)

Abstract: Let $V$ be a $(d+1)$-dimensional vector space over a field $mathbbF$. Sesquilinear forms over $V$ have been largely studied when they are reflexive and hence give rise to a (possibly degenerate) polarity of the $d$-dimensional projective space PG$(V)$. Everything is known in this case for both degenerate and non-degenerate reflexive forms if $mathbbF$ is either $mathbbR$, $mathbbC$ or a finite field ${mathbbF}_q$. In this paper we consider degenerate, non-reflexive sesquilinear forms of $V=mathbb{F}_{q^n}^3$. We will see that these forms give rise to degenerate correlations of PG$(2,q^n)$ whose set of absolute points are, besides cones, the (possibly degenerate) $C_F^m$-sets. In the final section we collect some results from the huge work of B.C. Kestenband regarding what is known for the set of the absolute points of correlations in PG$(2,q^n)$ induced by a non-degenerate, non-reflexive sesquilinear form of $V=mathbb{F}_{q^n}^3$.

Review text

It is well know that any correlation of \(\mathrm{PG}(d,q^n)\) is the product of a collineation and a polarity and, therefore, its is defined by a non-reflexive \(\sigma\)-sesqui-linear form of \(V=F^{d+1}_{q^n}\). The set \(\Gamma\) of absolute points of the correlation \(\rho\) of \(\mathrm{PG}(d,q^n)\) (i.e. the points \(x\) of \(\mathrm{PG}(d,q^n)\) such that \(x\in x^\rho\)) has been called a \(\sigma\)-quadric of \(PG(d,q^n)\). In this paper, the authors consider degenerate, non-reflexive sesqui-linear forms of \(V=F^3_{q^n}\). They prove that these forms give rise to degenerate correlations of \(\mathrm{PG}(2, q^n)\), whose set of absolute points in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\) are, besides cones, the (possibly degenerate) \(C^m_F\)-sets introduced in [\textit{N. Donati} et al. J. Algebraic Combin.40 (4), (2014), 1121--1134 ( Zbl 1320.51007)].

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