On the geometry of symplectic involutions

Abstract: Let

V

be a

2 n

-dimensional vector space over a field

F

and

O m e g a

be a non-degenerate symplectic form on

V

. Denote by

{m a t h f r a k H}_{k} (O m e g a)

the set of all

2 k

-dimensional subspaces

U s u b s e t V

such that the restriction

O m e g a |_{U}

is non-degenerate. Our main result (Theorem 1) says that if

n e 2 k

and

m a x (k, n - k) g e 5

then any bijective transformation of

{m a t h f r a k H}_{k} (O m e g a)

preserving the class of base subsets is induced by a semi-simplectic automorphism of

V

. For the case when

n e 2 k

this fails, but we have a weak version of this result (Theorem 2). If the characteristic of

F

is not equal to 2 then there is a one-to-one correspondence between elements of

{m a t h f r a k H}_{k} (O m e g a)

and symplectic

(2 k, 2 n - 2 k)

-involutions and Theorem 1 can be formulated as follows: for the case when

n e 2 k

and

m a x (k, n - k) g e 5

any commutativity preserving bijective transformation of the set of symplectic

(2 k, 2 n - 2 k)

-involutions can be extended to an automorphism of the symplectic group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0504410

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