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Transformations of polar Grassmannians preserving certain intersecting relations

Algebraic Geometry 2013-07-10 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let Π\Pi be a polar space of rank n3n\ge 3. Denote by Gk(Π){\mathcal G}_{k}(\Pi) the polar Grassmannian formed by singular subspaces of Π\Pi whose projective dimension is equal to kk. Suppose that kk is an integer not greater than n2n-2 and consider the relation Ri,j{\mathfrak R}_{i,j}, 0ijk+10\le i\le j\le k+1 formed by all pairs (X,Y)Gk(Π)×Gk(Π)(X,Y)\in {\mathcal G}_{k}(\Pi)\times {\mathcal G}_{k}(\Pi) such that dimp(XY)=ki\dim_{p}(X^{\perp}\cap Y)=k-i and dimp(XY)=kj\dim_{p} (X\cap Y)=k-j (XX^{\perp} consists of all points of Π\Pi collinear to every point of XX). We show that every bijective transformation of Gk(Π){\mathcal G}_{k}(\Pi) preserving R1,1{\mathfrak R}_{1,1} is induced by an automorphism of Π\Pi and the same holds for the relation R0,t{\mathfrak R}_{0,t} if n2t4n\ge 2t\ge 4 and k=nt1k=n-t-1. In the case when Π\Pi is a finite classical polar space, we establish that the valencies of Ri,j{\mathfrak R}_{i,j} and Ri,j{\mathfrak R}_{i',j'} are distinct if (i,j)(i,j)(i,j)\ne (i',j').

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@article{arxiv.1307.2316,
  title  = {Transformations of polar Grassmannians preserving certain intersecting relations},
  author = {Wen Liu and Mark Pankov and Kaishun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2316},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 pages

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