The complement of a subspace in a classical polar space

DOI10.26493/1855-3974.1917.EA5MaRDI QIDQ5217083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors K. Petelczyc, M. Żynel

Publication date 21 February 2020

Published in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00229

zbMATH Keywords

projective spacescomplementspolar spacesslit spacesemiaffine spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Linear incidence geometric structures with parallelism (51A15) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45)

Abstract: In a polar space, embeddable into a projective space, we fix a subspace, that is contained in some hyperplane. The complement of that subspace resembles a slit space or a semiaffine space. We prove that under some assumptions the ambient polar space can be recovered in this complement.

Recommendations

• The complement of a point subset in a projective space and a Grassmann space
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4040698
• Geometry on the lines of polar spine spaces
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5138385
• Nearly all subspaces of a classical polar space arise from its universal embedding

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 749963 (Why is no real title available?)
• Affine polar spaces
• Bericht über geschlitzte Inzidenzgruppen
• Geschlitzte Inzidenzgruppen und normale Fastmoduln
• New non-existence proofs for ovoids of Hermitian polar spaces and hyperbolic quadrics
• Partial Parallelism Spaces and Slit Spaces
• Semiaffine spaces
• The complement of a point subset in a projective space and a Grassmann space

Cited in

(5)

• Geometry on the lines of polar spine spaces
• The proportion of non-degenerate complementary subspaces in classical spaces
• Complements of Grassmann substructures in projective Grassmannians
• The complement of a point subset in a projective space and a Grassmann space
• Affine semipolar spaces

This page was built for publication: The complement of a subspace in a classical polar space

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5217083)