The complement of a subspace in a classical polar space

2018/05/01 by Petelczyc, Krzysztof, Żynel, Mariusz
#51A15 #51A45 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.00229

Abstract

In a polar space, embeddable into a projective space, we fix a subspace, that is contained in some hyperplane. The complement of that subspace resembles a slit space or a semiaffine space. We prove that under some assumptions the ambient polar space can be recovered in this complement.

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