A characterization of 42 ovoids with a certain property in PG(3,2)

DOI10.14492/HOKMJ/1319595865MaRDI QIDQ643709zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koichi Inoue

Publication date 2 November 2011

Published in Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.hokmj/1319595865

zbMATH Keywords

affine spacealternating formsexterior algebraorthogonal groupquadratic formsSteiner 4-wise balanced design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) General block designs in finite geometry (51E05) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

The author characterizes 42 ovoids in \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\) with a special property. The motivation for this study is as follows. Consider the vector space \(V=V(4,2)\). The 16 vectors of \(V\), together with the 140 blocks of cosets of 2-dimensional subspaces of \(V\) form a \(S(3,4,16)\) Steiner 3-wise balanced design. \textit{J. L. Yucas} [J. Comb. Des. 7, No. 2, 113--117 (1999; Zbl 0933.51002)] extended this design to a \(S(4,\{5,6\}, 17)\) design. There are 42 blocks of this design which do not contain the new point \(\infty\) but which contain the zero vector. These blocks define ovoids in \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\), i.e., subsets of size 5 of \(V\setminus \{0\}\) in which any four vectors are linearly independent. These ovoids are also elliptic quadrics in \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\). These 42 ovoids have the additional property of covering the triangles of \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\) exactly once. The author characterizes the 42 ovoids of \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\) satisfying this latter property.

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