The symmetric representation of lines in PG ( F^3 F^3 )

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Abstract: Let mathbbF be a finite field, an algebraically closed field, or the field of real numbers. Consider the vector space V=mathbbF3otimesmathbbF3 of 3imes3 matrices over mathbbF, and let GleqextPGL(V) be the setwise stabiliser of the corresponding Segre variety S3,3(mathbbF) in the projective space extPG(V). The G-orbits of lines in extPG(V) were determined by the first author and Sheekey as part of their classification of tensors in mathbbF2otimesV in the article "Canonical forms of 2imes3imes3 tensors over the real field, algebraically closed fields, and finite fields", Linear Algebra Appl. 476 (2015) 133-147. Here we consider the related problem of classifying those line orbits that may be represented by {em symmetric} matrices, or equivalently, of classifying the line orbits in the mathbbF-span of the Veronese variety mathcalV3(mathbbF)subsetS3,3(mathbbF) under the natural action of K=extPGL(3,mathbbF). Interestingly, several of the G-orbits that have symmetric representatives split under the action of K, and in many cases this splitting depends on the characteristic of mathbbF. The corresponding orbit sizes and stabiliser subgroups of K are also determined in the case where mathbbF is a finite field, and connections are drawn with old work of Jordan, Dickson and Campbell on the classification of pencils of conics in extPG(2,mathbbF), or equivalently, of pairs of ternary quadratic forms over mathbbF.









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