Transformations of polar Grassmannians preserving certain intersecting relations

DOI10.1007/S10801-014-0500-2MaRDI QIDQ478362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kaishun Wang, Wen Liu, Mark Pankov

Publication date 3 December 2014

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2316

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismintersecting relationpolar Grassmannianpolar space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50)

Abstract: Let $Pi$ be a polar space of rank $nge3$. Denote by ${mathcalG}_k(Pi)$ the polar Grassmannian formed by singular subspaces of $Pi$ whose projective dimension is equal to $k$. Suppose that $k$ is an integer not greater than $n-2$ and consider the relation ${mathfrakR}_{i,j}$, $0leilejlek+1$ formed by all pairs $(X,Y)in{mathcalG}_k(Pi)imes{mathcalG}_k(Pi)$ such that $di{m}_p(X^{perp}capY)=k-i$ and $di{m}_p(XcapY)=k-j$ ($X^{perp}$ consists of all points of $Pi$ collinear to every point of $X$). We show that every bijective transformation of ${mathcalG}_k(Pi)$ preserving ${mathfrakR}_{1,1}$ is induced by an automorphism of $Pi$ and the same holds for the relation ${mathfrakR}_{0,t}$ if $nge2tge4$ and $k=n-t-1$. In the case when $Pi$ is a finite classical polar space, we establish that the valencies of ${mathfrakR}_{i,j}$ and ${mathfrakR}_{i^{\prime },j^{\prime }}$ are distinct if $(i,j)e(i^{\prime },j^{\prime })$.

Review text

Let \(\Pi\) be a polar space of rank \(n\geq 3\). Denote by \({\mathcal G}_k(\Pi)\) the polar Grassmanian formed by singular subspaces of \(\Pi\) whose projective rank is equal \(k\). Let \(k\leq n-2\) and consider the relation \({\mathcal R}_{i,j}\), \(0\leq i\leq j\leq k+1\), formed by all pairs \((X,Y)\in {\mathcal G}_k(\Pi)\times {\mathcal G}_k(\Pi)\) such that \(\dim_p(X^\bot\cap Y)=k-i\) and \(\dim_p(X\cap Y)=k-j\). The authors prove that every bijective transformation of \({\mathcal G}_k(\Pi)\), preserving \({\mathcal R}_{1,1}\) is induced by an automorphism of \(\Pi\), except the case where \(\Pi\) is a polar space of type \(D_n\) with lines containing precisely three points (Theorem 1). If \(k=n-t-1\), where \(4\leq 2t\leq n\), then it is proved that every bijective transformation of \({\mathcal G}_k(\Pi)\), preserving \({\mathcal R}_{0,t}\) is induced by automorphism of \(\Pi\) (Theorem 2).

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