Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4582953 Finite Fields and Their Applications 2014 15 Pages PDF
Abstract
We show that the size of the intersection of a Hermitian variety in PG(n,q2), and any set satisfying an r-dimensional-subspace intersection property, is congruent to 1 modulo a power of p. In particular, in the case where n=2, if the two sets are a Hermitian unital and any other unital, the size of the intersection is congruent to 1 modulo q or modulo pq. If the second unital is a Buekenhout-Metz unital, we show that the size is congruent to 1 modulo q.
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