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Characterization of apartments in polar Grassmannians

Combinatorics 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

Buildings of types Cn\textsf{C}_n and Dn\textsf{D}_n are defined by rank nn polar spaces. The associated building Grassmannians are polar and half-spin Grassmannians. Apartments in dual polar spaces and half-spin Grassmannians were characterized in \cite{CKS}. We characterize apartments in all polar Grassmannians consisting of non-maximal singular subspaces. This characterization is a partial case of more general results concerning embeddings of polar Johnson graphs in polar Grassmann graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1109.2555,
  title  = {Characterization of apartments in polar Grassmannians},
  author = {Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2555},
  year   = {2011}
}