On m-ovoids of dual twisted triality hexagons

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Publication date: 25 June 2012

Abstract: A generalised hexagon of order

(s, t)

is said to be emph{extremal} if

t

meets the Haemers-Roos bound, that is,

t = s^{3}

. The emph{dual twisted triality hexagons} associated to the exceptional Lie type groups

,^{3} D_{4} (s)

have these parameters, and are the only known such examples. It was shown in the work of De Bruyn and Vanhove that an extremal generalised hexagon has no 1-ovoids. In this note, we prove that a dual twisted triality hexagon has no

m

-ovoids for every possible (nontrivial) value of

m

, except for the isolated case where

s = 3

and

m = 2

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

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