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

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2019.111775MaRDI QIDQ2297728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Lavrauw, Tomasz Popiel

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07323

zbMATH Keywords

pencils of conicsquadratic formSegre varietytensor productVeronese variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: Let $mathbbF$ be a finite field, an algebraically closed field, or the field of real numbers. Consider the vector space $V=mathbb{F}^{3}otimesmathbb{F}^3$ of $3imes3$ matrices over $mathbbF$, and let $GleqextPGL(V)$ be the setwise stabiliser of the corresponding Segre variety $S_{3,3}(mathbbF)$ 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 $mathbb{F}^{2}otimesV$ 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 $mathcal{V}_3(mathbbF)subset{S}_{3,3}(mathbbF)$ 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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