Quadrangles embedded in metasymplectic spaces

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2009.07.012MaRDI QIDQ992786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koen Struyve

Publication date 10 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4960

zbMATH Keywords

buildingmetasymplectic spacepolar space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

Abstract: During the final steps in the classification of the Moufang quadrangles by Jacques Tits and Richard Weiss a new class of Moufang quadrangles unexpectedly turned up. Subsequently Bernhard Muhlherr and Hendrik Van Maldeghem showed that this class arises as the fixed points and hyperlines of certain involutions of a metasymplectic space (or equivalently a building of type F_4). In the same paper they also showed that other types of Moufang quadrangles can be embedded in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines. In this paper, we reverse the question: given a (thick) quadrangle embedded in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines, when is such a quadrangle a Moufang quadrangle?

Review text

It is considered embeddings of generalized quadrangles in a building of type \(F_4\). Main result 1. Let \(\Gamma\) be a thick generalized quadrangle point-hyperline embedded in a metasymplectic space \(\mathcal M\), with \(\mathcal P\) the set of points and \(\mathcal H\) the set of hyperlines defining the quadrangle. Then \(\Gamma\) will be a Moufang quadrangle or improperly embedded if the following property holds: (OV) No 2 points of \(\mathcal P\) in the same hyperline of \(\mathcal H\) are collinear in \(\mathcal M\).

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