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Intriguing sets of quadrics in PG(5, q)

  • Antonio Cossidente EMAIL logo and Francesco Pavese
Published/Copyright: July 22, 2017
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Abstract

A hemisystem on the Hermitian surface ℋ(3, q2), q ≥ 7 odd, admitting a subgroup of PΩ-(4, q) of order q2(q +1) is constructed. Also, a new family of Cameron-Liebler line classes of PG(3, q), q ≥ 5 odd, with parameter (q2 + 1)/2 is provided.

MSC 2010: 05B25; 05E30; 51E12

Communicated by: T. Penttila


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Received: 2015-3-13
Revised: 2015-8-21
Published Online: 2017-7-22
Published in Print: 2017-7-26

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