Tetrads of lines spanning PG(7,2)

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Authors Hans Havlicek, Ron Shaw, Neil Gordon

Publication date 10 December 2013

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5745, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1382448192

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal{S}_{3}(2)\)invariant polynomialsline-spreadSegre variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: Our starting point is a very simple one, namely that of a set L_4 of four mutually skew lines in PG(7,2): Under the natural action of the stabilizer group G(L_4) < GL(8,2) the 255 points of PG(7,2) fall into four orbits omega_1, omega_2, omega_3 omega_4; of respective lengths 12, 54, 108, 81: We show that the 135 points in omega_2 cup omega_4 are the internal points of a hyperbolic quadric H_7 determined by L_4; and that the 81-set omega_4 (which is shown to have a sextic equation) is an orbit of a normal subgroup G_81 isomorphic to (Z_3)^4 of G(L_4): There are 40 subgroups (isomorphic to (Z_3)^3) of G_81; and each such subgroup H < G_81 gives rise to a decomposition of omega_4 into a triplet of 27-sets. We show in particular that the constituents of precisely 8 of these 40 triplets are Segre varieties S_3(2) in PG(7,2): This ties in with the recent finding that each Segre S = S_3(2) in PG(7,2) determines a distinguished Z_3 subgroup of GL(8,2) which generates two sibling copies S'; S" of S.

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