General Galois Geometries

• Main Authors: Hirschfeld, J.W.P (Author), Thas, J.A (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Projective geometry.; Combinatorics.; Projective Geometry.; Algebraic Geometry.

This book is the second edition of the third and last volume of a treatise on projective spaces over a finite field, also known as Galois geometries. This volume completes the trilogy comprised of plane case (first volume) and three dimensions (second volume). This revised edition includes much upda...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Terminology
• Quadrics
• Hermitian varieties
• Grassmann varieties
• Veronese and Serge varieties
• Embedded geometries
• Arcs and Caps
• Ovoids, spreads and m-systems of finite polar spaces
• References
• Index.