New non-existence proofs for ovoids of Hermitian polar spaces and hyperbolic quadrics

DOI10.1007/S00026-017-0346-0MaRDI QIDQ521904zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Bamberg, Jan De Beule, Ferdinand Ihringer

Publication date 12 April 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01926

zbMATH Keywords

finite classical polar spaceovoidtight set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Abstract: We provide new proofs for the non-existence of ovoids in hyperbolic spaces of rank at least four in even characteristic, and for the Hermitian polar space $mathsfH(5,4)$. We also improve the results of A. Klein on the non-existence of ovoids of Hermitian spaces and hyperbolic quadrics.

Review text

Let \(f\) be a (reflexive) sesquilinear or quadratic form on \(V(n + 1, q)\), the vector space of dimension \(n+1\) over the Galois field \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\). The elements of the finite classical polar space \(\mathcal{P}\) associated with \(f\) are the totally singular or totally isotropic subspaces of \(\mathrm{PG}(n, q)\) (the projective space associated with \(V(n + 1, q)\)) with relation to \(f\), according to whether \(f\) is a quadratic or sesquilinear form. The generators are the elements of maximal dimension in \(\mathcal{P}\). Let \(\mathcal{P}\) be a finite polar space. An ovoid is a set \(\mathcal{O}\) of points of \(\mathcal{P}\) meeting every generator of \(\mathcal{P}\) in exactly one point. In this work, the authors provide new proofs for the non-existence of ovoids in hyperbolic spaces of rank at least four in even characteristic, and for the Hermitian polar space \(H(5,4)\), based on the use of particular intriguing sets. They also improve the results of \textit{A. Klein} [Des. Codes Cryptography 31, No. 3, 221--226 (2004; Zbl 1052.51006)] on the non-existence of ovoids of Hermitian spaces and hyperbolic quadrics.

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