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1 Two-character sets as subsets of parabolic uadrics Bart De Bruyn Ghent University Department of Mathematics Krijgslaan 81 (S) B-9000 Gent Belgium Abstract A two-character set is a set of points of a finite projective space that has two intersection numbers with respect to hyperplanes Twocharacter sets are related to strongly regular graphs and two-weight codes In the literature there are plenty of constructions for (nontrivial) two-character sets by considering suitable subsets of uadrics and Hermitian varieties Such constructions exist for the uadrics Q + (n 1 ) PG(n 1 ) Q (n + 1 ) PG(n + 1 ) and the Hermitian varieties H(n 1 ) PG(n 1 ) H(n ) PG(n ) In this note we show that every two-character set of PG(n ) that is contained in a given nonsingular parabolic uadric Q(n ) PG(n ) is a subspace of PG(n ) This offers some explanation for the absence of the parabolic uadrics in the abovementioned constructions Keywords: Two-character set parabolic uadric MSC010: 51E0 51A50 1 Motivation and main result A set X of points of the projective space PG(k 1 ) is called a twocharacter set with intersection numbers h 1 and h if every hyperplane of PG(k 1 ) intersects X in either h 1 or h points With every two-character set there is associated a two-weight code and a strongly regular graph see Delsarte [1] and Calderbank & Kantor [6] A nonempty proper subspace of PG(k 1 ) is an example of a (trivial) two-character set Many of the known constructions for two-character sets are related to finite polar spaces In this note we are interested in sets of points of finite polar spaces that are two-character sets of their ambient projective 1
2 spaces In the literature there are plenty of constructions for obtaining such two-character sets In the overview we give below P denotes one of the following polar spaces of rank n : Q(n ); Q + (n 1 ); Q (n + 1 ); H(n 1 ) with a suare; H(n ) with a suare An m-ovoid of P is a set of points intersecting each maximal subspace of P in precisely m points Examples of m-ovoids arise from the so-called m -systems of P These nice sets of m -dimensional subspaces of P were introduced by Shult and Thas [3] In [3] it was proved among other things that the union of the subspaces of an m -ovoid of P is a m ovoid of P If P is one of the polar spaces H(n ) Q (n + 1 ) then every m-ovoid of P is a two-character set of the ambient projective space Σ see Bamberg Kelly Law & Penttila [1] and Bamberg Law & Penttila [] In particular the union of the subspaces of an m -system of P is a two-character set of Σ The +1 -ovoids of Q (5 ) odd are also known as hemisystems They were first studied by Segre [] Constructions of hemisystems can be found in the papers [10 11 ] If X is a set of points of P then the total number of ordered pairs of distinct collinear points of P is at most λ 1 X ( X λ + ()) with λ denoting the total number of points contained in a given maximal subspace of P If euality holds then X is called a tight Tight sets were introduced by Payne [1] for generalized uadrangles and by Drudge [13] for arbitrary polar spaces If P is one of the polar spaces H(n 1 ) Q + (n 1 ) then every tight set of P is a two-character set of the ambient projective space see Bamberg Kelly Law & Penttila [1] and Bamberg Law & Penttila [] The tight sets of the hyperbolic uadric Q + (5 ) are related to the so-called Cameron-Liebler line classes of PG(3 ) Recall that a spread of PG(3 ) is a set of lines partitioning its point set A set L of lines of PG(3 ) is said to be a Cameron-Liebler line class if the number L S is independent of the spread S of PG(3 ) Sets of lines satisfying this property were first studied by Cameron and Liebler in [7] By Drudge [13] the Cameron-Liebler line classes correspond via the Klein correspondence to the tight sets of Q + (5 ) Nontrivial examples of Cameron-Liebler line classes of PG(3 ) can be found in [ ] Further constructions of tight sets of the polar spaces Q + (n 1 ) H(n 1 ) and of m-ovoids or m -systems of the polar spaces H(n ) Q (n + 1 ) can be found in the papers [ ] By a procedure referred to as field-reduction in Kelly [0] tight sets and m- ovoids of these polar spaces will give rise to further examples of tight sets and m-ovoids and (hence) also to further examples of two-character sets The above discussion shows that there are plenty of constructions for two-
3 character sets that appear as subsets of uadrics or Hermitian varieties of finite projective spaces An attentive reader might have noticed that none of the above constructions involves a parabolic uadric Q(n ) PG(n ) This is not a coincidence The following theorem which is the main result of this note gives an explanation for this fact Theorem 11 Let X be a set of points of Q(n ) n which is a twocharacter set of the ambient projective space PG(n ) of Q(n ) Then X is the set of points of a subspace of Q(n ) So in future attempts to construct new two-character sets related to polar spaces one should not spent any energy in those sets of points that can occur as subsets of nonsingular parabolic uadrics Other nonexistence results for certain classes of two-character sets can be found in the literature see eg the papers [3] and [8] Proof of Theorem 11 Let Q(n ) be a nonsingular parabolic uadric of PG(n ) n The uadric Q(n ) contains ψ(n ) = n 1 points There are three possibilities for a hyperplane of PG(n ) see eg Hirschfeld and Thas [19] (1) is a tangent hyperplane If is tangent to Q(n ) at the point x then Q(n ) is a cone of the form xq(n ) where Q(n ) is a nonsingular parabolic uadric of a hyperplane of not containing x Observe that Q(n ) = xq(n ) = n 1 1 () is a non-tangent hyperplane of type Q + (n 1 ) or shortly a Q + (n 1 )-hyperplane This means that Q(n ) is a nonsingular hyperbolic uadric of Observe that Q(n ) is eual to ψ + (n 1 ) := Q + (n 1 ) = n n 1 = (n 1)( n 1 +1) (3) is a non-tangent hyperplane of type Q (n 1 ) or shortly a Q (n 1 )-hyperplane This means that Q(n ) is a nonsingular elliptic uadric of Observe that Q(n ) is eual to ψ (n 1 ) := Q (n 1 ) = n 1 1 n 1 = (n +1)( n 1 1) So Q(n ) itself is not a two-character set since there are three possible intersection sizes with hyperplanes In the proof of Theorem 11 we have to make use of the following lemma 3
4 Lemma 1 (1) There are precisely n + n non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q + (n 1 ) and n n non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q (n 1 ) () Through every point of Q(n ) there are precisely n ( n 1 +1) nontangents hyperplanes of type Q + (n 1 ) and n ( n 1 1) non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q (n 1 ) (3) Through every two distinct collinear points of Q(n ) there are precisely n ( n +1) non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q + (n 1 ) and n ( n 1) non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q (n 1 ) (4) Through every two non-collinear points of Q(n ) there are precisely n 1 ( n 1 +1) non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q + (n 1 ) and n 1 ( n 1 1) non-tangent hyperplanes of type Q (n 1 ) Proof This can easily be verified by means of double counting taking into account some elementary properties of uadrics and the precise values of the numbers ψ(n ) ψ + (n 1 ) and ψ (n 1 ) For Claim (1) see eg Hirschfeld and Thas [19 Section 8] Claims () (3) and (4) follow from Claim (1) and the fact that the group of collineations of PG(n ) stabilizing Q(n ) acts transitively on the points of Q(n ) the ordered pairs of distinct collinear points of Q(n ) and the ordered pairs of noncollinear points of Q(n ) Now let X be a set of points of Q(n ) that is a two-character set of the projective space PG(n ) Let h 1 and h denote the two intersection numbers Let N 1 denote the total number of ordered pairs of distinct collinear points of X For every hyperplane of PG(n ) we define t := X Summing over all hyperplanes of PG(n ) we find by Lemma 1 that 1 = n+1 1 t = X n 1 t (t 1) = X ( X 1) n 1 1 t = X n X n 1 4
5 Putting (t h 1 )(t h ) eual to 0 we find X n X n 1 X n 1 (h 1 +h )+ n+1 1 h 1 h = 0 (1) Summing over all Q + (n 1 )-hyperplanes of PG(n ) we find by Lemma 1 that 1 = n + n t = X n ( n 1 + 1) t (t 1) = N 1 n ( n + 1) = N 1 n n 1 t = N 1 n n 1 ) + ( X ( X 1) N 1 + X n 1 ( n 1 + 1) Putting (t h 1 )(t h ) eual to 0 we find n 1 ( n 1 + 1) X n 1 ( n 1 + 1) + X n 1 ( n 1 + 1) + X (n 1 + 1)( n n 1 ) N 1 () + X ( n 1 + 1) + X ( n 1 + 1)() X ( n + ) (h 1 + h ) + ( n+1 + ) h 1 h = 0 () Summing over all Q (n 1 )-hyperplanes of PG(n ) we find by Lemma 1 that 1 = n n t = X n ( n 1 1) t (t 1) = N 1 n ( n 1) 5 ) + ( X ( X 1) N 1 n 1 ( n 1 1)
6 = N 1 n n 1 t = N 1 n n 1 Putting (t h 1 )(t h ) eual to 0 we find + X n 1 ( n 1 1) X n 1 ( n 1 1) + X n 1 ( n 1 1) + X (n 1 1)( n n 1 ) N 1 () + X ( n 1 1) + X ( n 1 1)() X ( n ) (h 1 + h ) + ( n+1 ) h 1 h = 0 (3) Eliminating N 1 from euations () and (3) we find X + X () X (h 1 + h ) + h 1 h = 0 (4) From (1) and (4) we find h 1 + h = ( + 1) X 1 h 1 h = X X (5) and hence {h 1 h } = { X X 1 } (6) Combining (3) and (5) we can calculate N 1 We find N 1 = X ( X 1) (7) By (7) every two distinct points of X are collinear on Q(n ) Hence < X > is a subspace of Q(n ) Put k := dim < X > By (6) every hyperplane of < X > contains precisely X 1 points Counting in two different ways the number of pairs (x U) where x X and U a hyperplane of < X > containing x we find It follows that k+1 1 X 1 X = k+1 1 = X k 1 Hence X is the whole set of points of the subspace < X > of Q(n ) 6
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