Abstract
We use the fact that certain classical unitals contain affine parts of orthogonal polar spaces in order to determine their full groups of automorphisms.
Citation
Markus Stroppel. "Orthogonal polar spaces and unitals." Innov. Incidence Geom. 12 167 - 179, 2011. https://doi.org/10.2140/iig.2011.12.167
Information
Received: 19 April 2011; Accepted: 7 October 2011; Published: 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 28 February 2019
zbMATH: 1301.51008
MathSciNet: MR2942723
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/iig.2011.12.167
Subjects:
Primary:
51A50
,
51E12
,
51E24
Keywords:
affine generalized quadrangle
,
affine polar space
,
automorphism
,
hermitian form
,
polar space
,
quadratic form
,
quaternion field
,
unital
Rights: Copyright © 2011 Mathematical Sciences Publishers