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A classification of transitive ovoids, spreads, and m-systems of polar spaces

  • John Bamberg and Tim Penttila
Published/Copyright: March 12, 2009
Forum Mathematicum
From the journal Volume 21 Issue 2

Abstract

Many of the known ovoids and spreads of finite polar spaces admit a transitive group of collineations, and in 1988, P. Kleidman classified the ovoids admitting a 2-transitive group. A. Gunawardena has recently extended this classification by determining the ovoids of the seven-dimensional hyperbolic quadric which admit a primitive group. In this paper we classify the ovoids and spreads of finite polar spaces which are stabilised by an insoluble transitive group of collineations, as a corollary of a more general classification of m-systems admitting such groups.

Received: 2007-06-22
Published Online: 2009-03-12
Published in Print: 2009-March

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