Transformations of polar Grassmannians preserving certain intersecting relations

Abstract: Let

P i

be a polar space of rank

n g e 3

. Denote by

{m a t h c a l G}_{k} (P i)

the polar Grassmannian formed by singular subspaces of

P i

whose projective dimension is equal to

k

. Suppose that

k

is an integer not greater than

n - 2

and consider the relation

{m a t h f r a k R}_{i, j}

,

0 l e i l e j l e k + 1

formed by all pairs

(X, Y) i n {m a t h c a l G}_{k} (P i) i m e s {m a t h c a l G}_{k} (P i)

such that

d i m_{p} (X^{p e r p} c a p Y) = k - i

and

d i m_{p} (X c a p Y) = k - j

(

X^{p e r p}

consists of all points of

P i

collinear to every point of

X

). We show that every bijective transformation of

{m a t h c a l G}_{k} (P i)

preserving

{m a t h f r a k R}_{1, 1}

is induced by an automorphism of

P i

and the same holds for the relation

{m a t h f r a k R}_{0, t}

if

n g e 2 t g e 4

and

k = n - t - 1

. In the case when

P i

is a finite classical polar space, we establish that the valencies of

{m a t h f r a k R}_{i, j}

and

{m a t h f r a k R}_{i^{'}, j^{'}}

are distinct if

(i, j) e (i^{'}, j^{'})

.

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