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Uniform Hyperplanes of Finite Dual Polar Spaces of Rank 3

✍ Scribed by A. Pasini; S. Shpectorov

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 124 KB
Volume: 94
Category: Article
ISSN: 0097-3165
DOI: 10.1006/jcta.2000.3136

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✦ Synopsis

Let 2 be a finite thick dual polar space of rank 3. We say that a hyperplane H of 2 is locally singular (respectively, quadrangular or ovoidal) if H & Q is the perp of a point (resp. a subquadrangle or an ovoid) of Q for every quad Q of 2. If H is locally singular, quadrangular, or ovoidal, then we say that H is uniform. It is known that if H is locally singular, then either H is the set of points at non-maximal distance from a given point of 2 or 2 is the dual of Q(6, q) and H arises from the generalized hexagon H(q). In this paper we prove that only two examples exist for the locally quadrangular case, arising in Q(6, 2) and H (5, 4), respectively. We fail to rule out the locally ovoidal case, but we obtain some partial results on it, which imply that, in this case, the geometry 2"H induced by 2 on the complement of H cannot be flag-transitive. As a bi-product, the hyperplanes H with 2"H flagtransitive are classified.

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