Jozefien D’haeseleer, Ferdinand Ihringer, Kai-Uwe Schmidt
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Abstract
We investigate what we call generalized ovoids, that is families of totally isotropic subspaces of finite classical polar spaces such that each maximal totally isotropic subspace contains precisely one member of that family. This is a generalization of ovoids in polar spaces as well as the natural q-analog of a subcube partition of the hypercube (which can be seen as a polar space with \(q=1\)). Our main result proves that a generalized ovoid of k-spaces in polar spaces of large rank does not exist.
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