A modular equality for mm‐ovoids of elliptic quadrics

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12830zbMATH Open1522.51006arXiv2111.07350OpenAlexW4364380312MaRDI QIDQ6096841FDOQ6096841

Authors: Alexander L. Gavrilyuk, Klaus Metsch, Francesco Pavese 

Publication date: 15 September 2023

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An $m$-ovoid of a finite polar space $mathcalP$ is a set $mathcalO$ of points such that every maximal subspace of $mathcalP$ contains exactly $m$ points of $mathcalO$. In the case when $mathcalP$ is an elliptic quadric $mathcal{Q}^{-}(2r+1,q)$ of rank $r$ in $mathbb{F}_q^{2r+2}$, 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 $mathcal{Q}^{-}(7,q)$ for $q=2$ and $(m,q)=(4,3)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07350

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

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