Singular lines of trilinear forms

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2010.03.040zbMATH Open1213.15020arXiv0909.5676OpenAlexW2014649562MaRDI QIDQ977488FDOQ977488

Authors: Jan Draisma, Ron Shaw 

Publication date: 22 June 2010

Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that an alternating e-form on a vector space over a quasi-algebraically closed field always has a singular (e-1)-dimensional subspace, provided that the dimension of the space is strictly greater than e. Here an (e-1)-dimensional subspace is called singular if pairing it with the e-form yields zero. By the theorem of Chevalley and Warning our result applies in particular to finite base fields. Our proof is most interesting in the case where e=3 and the space has odd dimension n; then it involves a beautiful equivariant map from alternating trilinear forms to polynomials of degree (n-3)/2. We also give a sharp upper bound on the dimension of subspaces all of whose 2-dimensional subspaces are singular for a non-degenerate trilinear form. In certain binomial dimensions the trilinear forms attaining this upper bound turn out to form a single orbit under the general linear group, and we classify their singular lines.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5676

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zbMATH Keywords

trilinear formsgeometry over finite fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63)

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