Title
A Characterization of Hermitian Varieties as Codewords.
Abstract
It is known that the Hermitian varieties are codewords in the code defined by the points and hyperplanes of the projective spaces PG(r, q(2)). In finite geometry, also quasi-Hermitian varieties are defined. These are sets of points of PG(r, q(2)) of the same size as a non-singular Hermitian variety of PG(r, q(2)), having the same intersection sizes with the hyperplanes of PG(r, q(2)). In the planar case, this reduces to the definition of a unital. A famous result of Blokhuis, Brouwer, and Wilbrink states that every unital in the code of the points and lines of PG(2, q(2)) is a Hermitian curve. We prove a similar result for the quasi-Hermitian varieties in PG(3, q(2)), q = p(h), as well as in PG(r, q(2)), q = p prime, or q = p(2), p prime, and r >= 4.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
Hermitian variety,incidence vector,codes of projective spaces,quasi-Hermitian variety
Field
DocType
Volume
Prime (order theory),Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Unital,Hyperplane,Hermitian matrix,Hermitian variety,Finite geometry,Mathematics
Journal
25.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1.0
1077-8926
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Angela Aguglia1137.62
Daniele Bartoli27123.04
Leo Storme319738.07
Zsuzsa Weiner4509.72