A modular equality for mm‐ovoids of elliptic quadrics

Publication date 15 September 2023

Abstract: An

m

-ovoid of a finite polar space

m a t h c a l P

is a set

m a t h c a l O

of points such that every maximal subspace of

m a t h c a l P

contains exactly

m

points of

m a t h c a l O

. In the case when

m a t h c a l P

is an elliptic quadric

m a t h c a l Q^{-} (2 r + 1, q)

of rank

r

in

m a t h b b F_{q}^{2 r + 2}

, we prove that an

m

-ovoid exists only if

m

satisfies a certain modular equality, which depends on

q

and

r

. This condition rules out many of the possible values of

m

. Previously, only a lower bound on

m

was known, which we slightly improve as a byproduct of our method. We also obtain a characterization of the

m

-ovoids of

m a t h c a l Q^{-} (7, q)

for

q = 2

and

(m, q) = (4, 3)

.

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