Characterization results on small blocking sets of the polar spaces Q^+(2n+1,2) and Q^+(2n+1,3)

DOI10.1007/S10623-007-9087-0MaRDI QIDQ2384040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan De Beule, Klaus Metsch, Leo Storme

Publication date 20 September 2007

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-007-9087-0

zbMATH Keywords

Blocking setHyperbolic quadricPolar space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Combinatorial geometries and geometric closure systems (51D20) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

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• A characterization of flat spaces in a finite geometry and the uniqueness of the hamming and the MacDonald codes
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• Blocking sets in projective spaces and polar spaces
• Complete systems of lines on a Hermitian surface over a finite field
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• On the smallest minimal blocking sets of \(Q(2n,q)\), for \(q\) an odd prime
• Partial ovoids and partial spreads in Hermitian polar spaces
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• Small point sets that meet all generators of \(W(2n+1,q)\)
• Some \(p\)-ranks related to orthogonal spaces
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• The smallest minimal blocking sets of Q(6, q), q even
• The smallest point sets that meet all generators of \(H(2n,q^2)\)

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