On the embeddability of polar spaces
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Hans Cuypers; Peter Johnson; Antonio Pasini
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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We show that every nondegenerate polar space of rank at least 4 with at least three points on each line can be embedded in a projective space. Together with some results from [9] and 1-12], this provides a particularly elementary proof that any such polar space is of classical type. Our methods invo