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On m-ovoids of dual twisted triality hexagons

Combinatorics 2014-05-22 v3

Abstract

A generalised hexagon of order (s,t)(s,t) is said to be \emph{extremal} if tt meets the Haemers-Roos bound, that is, t=s3t=s^3. The \emph{dual twisted triality hexagons} associated to the exceptional Lie type groups 3D4(s)\,^3D_4(s) have these parameters, and are the only known such examples. It was shown in the work of De Bruyn and Vanhove that an extremal generalised hexagon has no 1-ovoids. In this note, we prove that a dual twisted triality hexagon has no mm-ovoids for every possible (nontrivial) value of mm, except for the isolated case where s=3s=3 and m=2m=2.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5615,
  title  = {On m-ovoids of dual twisted triality hexagons},
  author = {John Bamberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5615},
  year   = {2014}
}

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This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error