Veldkamp-space aspects of a sequence of nested binary Segre varieties

Abstract: Let

S_{(N)} e q u i v P G (1,, 2) i m e s P G (1,, 2) i m e s c d o t s i m e s P G (1,, 2)

be a Segre variety that is

N

-fold direct product of projective lines of size three. Given two geometric hyperplanes

H^{'}

and

H^{″}

of

S_{(N)}

, let us call the triple

H^{'}, H^{″}, o v e r l i n e H^{'} D e l t a H^{″}

the Veldkamp line of

S_{(N)}

. We shall demonstrate, for the sequence

2 l e q N l e q 4

, that the properties of geometric hyperplanes of

S_{(N)}

are fully encoded in the properties of Veldkamp {it lines} of

S_{(N - 1)}

. Using this property, a complete classification of all types of geometric hyperplanes of

S_{(4)}

is provided. Employing the fact that, for

2 l e q N l e q 4

, the (ordinary part of) Veldkamp space of

S_{(N)}

is

P G (2^{N} - 1, 2)

, we shall further describe which types of geometric hyperplanes of

S_{(N)}

lie on a certain hyperbolic quadric

m a t h c a l Q_{0}^{+} (2^{N} - 1, 2) s u b s e t P G (2^{N} - 1, 2)

that contains the

S_{(N)}

and is invariant under its stabilizer group; in the

N = 4

case we shall also single out those of them that correspond, via the Lagrangian Grassmannian of type

L G (4, 8)

, to the set of 2295 maximal subspaces of the symplectic polar space

m a t h c a l W (7, 2)

.

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