Elliptic ovoids and their rosettes in a classical generalized quadrangle of even order

DOI10.1007/S12044-016-0311-6MaRDI QIDQ345688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilaria Cardinali, N. S. Narasimha Sastry

Publication date 2 December 2016

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1714

zbMATH Keywords

cliques\(t\)-fold coveringcollinearity graphgeneralized quadrangles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

Abstract: Let Q_0 be the classical generalized quadrangle of order q = 2n arising from a non-degenerate quadratic form in a 5-dimensional vector space defined over a finite field of order q. We consider the rank two geometry X having as points all the elliptic ovoids of Q_0 and as lines the maximal pencils of elliptic ovoids of Q_0 pairwise tangent at the same point. We first prove that X is isomorphic to a 2-fold quotient of the affine generalized quadrangle Q setminus Q_0 where Q is the classical (q; q^2)-generalized quadrangle admitting Q_0 as a hyperplane. Then, we investigate the collinearity graph Gamma of X: In particular, we obtain a classification of the cliques of Gamma proving that they arise either from lines of Q or subgeometries of Q defined over F_2

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