The twisted cubic in PG(3,q) and translation spreads in H(q)

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In the present article the authors remind the known connections between translation spreads of the classical generalized hexagon \(H(q)\) and the twister cubic of \(PG(3,q)\). They prove that if \(q^n\equiv 1\pmod 3\), \(q\text{ odd}\), \(q\geq 4n^2-8n+2\) and \(n>2\), then an \(\mathbb{F}_q\)-linear subset of \(PG(3,q^n)\) of rank \(2n\) of \(PG(3,q^n)\) whose points belong to imaginary chords of a twister cubic \({\mathcal C}\) of \(PG(3,q^n)\) is an \(\mathbb{F}_{q^n}\)-linear set and hence it is a line. As an application they get that if \(q^n\equiv 1\pmod 3\), \(q\) odd, \(q\geq 4n^2-8n+2\) and \(n>2\), then \(H(q^n)\) does not admit an \(\mathbb{F}_q\)-translation spread with respect to a line.











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