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A unital in PG(2,q^2) is a set U of q^3+1 points such that each line meets U in 1 or q+1 points. The well known example is the classical unital consisting of all absolute points of a non-degenerate unitary polarity of PG(2,q^2). Unitals…

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In this paper, we first prove the 2-rank of full incidence matrix of PG(n,q) with $q$ an odd prime power. Then by the quadratic form defined on PG(n,q), the points of it are classified as isotropic and anisotropic points. We divide the full…

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We establish necessary and sufficient conditions on simultaneous symplectic spectral decomposition of a family of $2n \times 2n$ real positive semidefinite matrices with symplectic kernels. We also provide a precise algebraic condition on a…

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The celebrated Poncelet porism is usually studied for a pair of smooth conics that are in a general position. Here we discuss Poncelet porism in the real plane - affine or projective, when that is not the case, i.e. the conics have at least…

If V is the vertex sequence of a symmetric 2t-cycle in the hypercube graph with the vertices {1,-1}^t, then for any vertex T of the graph there exists a unique inclusion-minimal subset of V such that T is the sum of its elements. We present…

It is well known that a set of non-defect matrices can be simultaneously diagonalized if and only if the matrices commute. In the case of non-commuting matrices, the best that can be achieved is simultaneous block diagonalization. Here we…

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