On the geometry of commuting polarities

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2006.04.005MaRDI QIDQ875041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Cossidente, Giuseppe Marino, M. J. de Resmini

Publication date 10 April 2007

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2006.04.005

Hermitian geometry orthogonal polarity symplectic unitary

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

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Let \({\mathcal H} = {\mathcal H}(2,q^2)\) be the Hermitian curve of PG\((2,q^2) \), \(q\) odd, defined by \(x_{0}x_{2}^q - 2x_{1}^{q+1} + x_{2}x_{0}^q = 0 \). For any \((q+1)\)-st root of unity \(a\) in GF\((q^2)\) consider the non-singular conic \({\mathcal C}_{a}\) defined by \(x_{0}x_{2} - a x_{1}^2 = 0 \). Then every \({\mathcal C}_{a}\) commutes with \(\mathcal H\) and for \(a \neq b \) the intersection \({\mathcal C}_{a} \cap {\mathcal C}_{b}\) consists of two points. Consider \[ {\mathcal Q}_{a} := {\mathcal C}_{a} \cap {\mathcal H} = \{ (1,t,at^2)\mid t \in \text{GF}(q^2)^*,\;t^{q-1} = a \} \cup \{ (1,0,0), (0,0,1)\} \] and \({\mathcal K} := \bigcup_{a} {\mathcal Q}_{a} = \{ (1,t,t^{q+1})\mid t \in \text{GF}(q^2) \} \cup \{ (0,0,1)\}\). Via the injective map \(\Phi : {\mathcal K} \to \text{ PG}(3,q^2) : (1,t,t^{q +1}) \mapsto (1,t,t^q,t^{q+1}), (0,0,1) \mapsto (0,0,0,1)\) the set \( \mathcal K\) corresponds to an elliptic quadric \({\mathcal Q}^-(3,q)\) of PG \((3,q)\). It is shown that the converse is true as well. In the same spirit it is shown that \(\mathcal K\) corresponds to a regular symplectic spread of PG\((3,q)\), and vice versa.

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