Invertible symmetric 3 3 binary matrices and GQ(2,4)

DOI10.1080/03081087.2011.651725MaRDI QIDQ3143321zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Blunck, Péter Lévay, Metod Saniga, Péter Vrana

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1768

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic formssymplectic polaritybinary matrices of order 3 - GQ(2,4) - PG(5,2)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: We reveal an intriguing connection between the set of 27 (disregarding the identity) invertible symmetric 3 x 3 matrices over GF(2) and the points of the generalized quadrangle GQ(2,4). The 15 matrices with eigenvalue one correspond to a copy of the subquadrangle GQ(2,2), whereas the 12 matrices without eigenvalues have their geometric counterpart in the associated double-six. The fine details of this correspondence, including the precise algebraic meaning/analogue of collinearity, are furnished by employing the representation of GQ(2,4) as a quadric in PG(5,2) of projective index one. An interesting physical application of our findings is also mentioned.

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