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Grassmann embeddings of polar Grassmannians

Algebraic Geometry 2020-05-13 v3

Abstract

In this paper we compute the dimension of the Grassmann embeddings of the polar Grassmannians associated to a possibly degenerate Hermitian, alternating or quadratic form with possibly non-maximal Witt index. Moreover, in the characteristic 22 case, when the form is quadratic and non-degenerate with bilinearization of minimal Witt index, we define a generalization of the so-called Weyl embedding (see [I. Cardinali and A. Pasini, Grassmann and Weyl embeddings of orthogonal Grassmannians. J. Algebr. Combin. 38 (2013), 863-888]) and prove that the Grassmann embedding is a quotient of this generalized "Weyl-like" embedding. We also estimate the dimension of the latter.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12811,
  title  = {Grassmann embeddings of polar Grassmannians},
  author = {Ilaria Cardinali and Luca Giuzzi and Antonio Pasini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12811},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages/revised version after review