scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1069242

MaRDI QIDQ4358772zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Athula Gunawardena, John D. Fuelberth

Publication date 1997

zbMATH Keywords

isotropic vectorsorthogonal space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Linear incidence geometric structures with parallelism (51A15) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50)

Review text

In an orthogonal space over some finite field \(GF(q)\) the authors consider quadruples of pairwise non-orthogonal isotropic vectors. Each of these can be described by a symmetric \(4\times 4\) matrix \(M\) with the diagonal entries, and only those, zero. The set \({\mathcal M}\) of all these matrices allows the mapping \(M\to X^TMX\), where \(X=DP\), \(D\) a diagonal matrix, \(P\) a permutation matrix. The number of orbits of \({\mathcal M}\) with respect to this group of matrices is given, depending on the existence of non-squares and non-cubes in \(GF(q)\) (Theorem 2). Also the number of orbits in the nondegenerate case (where the quadruple spans a four-dimensional space) is given (Theorem 4). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00028].

Recommendations

• Critical problems of totally isotropic subspaces in finite orthogonal spaces.
• Some enumeration formulas in finite orthogonal spaces of odd characteristic and its applications
• Some families of complete caps of quadrics and symplectic polarities over \(\text{GF}(8)\)
• Some numbering theorems in singular orthogonal geometry over a finite field of even characteristic
• Some \(p\)-ranks related to orthogonal spaces

Cited in

(1)

• On cyclic caps in 4-dimensional projective spaces

This page was built for publication:

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4358772)