An Outline of Polar Spaces: Basics and Advances

DOI10.1007/978-81-322-1814-2_3zbMATH Open1342.51005arXiv1303.5764OpenAlexW1519430371MaRDI QIDQ2807164FDOQ2807164

Authors: Ilaria Cardinali 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Groups of Exceptional Type, Coxeter Groups and Related Geometries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is an extended version of a series of lectures on polar spaces given during the workshop and conference 'Groups and Geometries', held at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore in December 2012. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the theory of polar spaces focusing on some research topics related to polar spaces. We survey the fundamental results about polar spaces starting from classical polar spaces. Then we introduce and report on the state of the art on the following research topics: polar spaces of infinite rank, embedding polar spaces in groups and projective embeddings of dual polar spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5764

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zbMATH Keywords

quadratic formembeddingpolar spacedual polar spacesesquilinear formpolar Grassmannian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45)

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