Some p-ranks Related to Hermitian Varieties
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We determine the p-rank of the incidence matrix of hyperplanes of PG(n, p) and points of a nondegenerate Hermitian variety. As a corollary, we obtain new bounds for the size of caps and the existence of ovoids in finite unitary spaces. This paper is a companion to [2], in which Blokhuis and this author derive the analogous p-ranks for quadrics.
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