Minimal scattered sets and polarized embeddings of dual polar spaces

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2006.08.003MaRDI QIDQ2643839zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bart De Bruyn, Antonio Pasini

Publication date 27 August 2007

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2006.08.003

zbMATH Keywords

dual polar spacesembeddingnear polygonspolarized embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

In this interesting paper, the authors introduce the notion of a ``scattered set of points of a dual polar space as a set \(X\) of points such that every point of the dual polar space is at maximal distance from some point of \(X\). A minimal scattered set is one with the property that, if one removes any point from it, what remains is not a scattered set anymore. The maximum size of a minimal scattered set is called the scattered rank. The main results of the paper under review state that (1) every dual polar space of diameter \(n\) admits a minimal scattered set of size \(2^n\), and (2) if a dual polar space \(\Delta\) admits a polarized lax embedding in some projective space of dimension \(r-1\), then \(r\) is not smaller than the scattered rank of \(\Delta\).

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