On incidence structures of nonsingular points and hyperbolic lines of ovoids in finite orthogonal spaces

Author: Fuelberth John   Gunawardena Athula   Shaffer C.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0925-1022

Source: Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Vol.57, Iss.1, 2010-10, pp. : 15-33

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Abstract

We study the point-line incidence structures of nonsingular points and hyperbolic secant lines associated with ovoids in finite orthogonal spaces. We show that these incidence structures frequently produce partial linear spaces and the parameters of the bipartite graphs (called ovoidal graphs) associated with these structures produce simple and effective isomorphism invariants to distinguish non-isomorphic ovoids. We prove explicit formulas for these isomorphism invariants for a number of infinite families of 2-transitive ovoids.