Trivectors and cubics: PG(5,2) aspects

DOI10.1007/S00022-011-0060-8MaRDI QIDQ641697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ron Shaw

Publication date 25 October 2011

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-011-0060-8

zbMATH Keywords

alternating multilinear formscubics in \(PG(5, 2)\)Desarguesian line-spreadGrassmanniansingular linestrivectorstrivectors over \(GF(2)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exterior algebra, Grassmann algebras (15A75) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

Let \(Alt(\times^ d_{n+1})\) denote the vector space of alternating multilinear forms \(\times^d V_{n+1} \rightarrow GF(2).\) The space \(Alt(\times^3V_6)\) of alternating trilinear forms on \(V_6=V(6,2)\) is naturally isomorphic to the space \(\land^3 (V_6^*)\) of trivectors based on \(V_6^*\), where \(V_6^*\) is the dual vector space of \(V_6\). Under the natural action of the group \(GL(6,2)\) the nonzero elements of \(Alt(\times^3V_6)\) are shown to fall into five distinct orbits. It follows that the \(2^{21} (2^{20} -1)\) cubic hypersurfaces in \(PG(5,2)\) are classified into five families. The set of \(T\)-singular lines, \({ L}_T\), \(T \in Alt(\times^3V_6)\), are described for a representative of each of the orbits. One of the orbits is a Desarguesian line-spread in \(PG(5,2).\) Additionally, the author makes the following two conjectures which are shown to be equivalent. Conjecture A: For any \(n >2\) and any \(T \in Alt(\times^3V_{n+1})\) the set \({ L}_T\) of \(T\)-singular lines in \(PG(n,2)\) is non-empty. Conjecture B: For any \(n>2\) and any \(T \in Alt(\times^3 V_{n+1})\) the Grassmannian \({G}_{1,n,2} \subset P(\land^2V_{n+1})\) has non-empty intersection with \({ P}(\ker C_T).\)

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