Polar spaces embedded in projective spaces
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Let P be a polar space induced by a quasipolarity on a projective space G. In this article, we give sufficient conditions for an embedding (i.e. an incidence-preserving map which is injective on points and lines) of P into a projective space H to be extendable to an incidencepreserving map from G to H. As a consequence, we obtain conditions for such an embedding to be induced by a semilinear map between the overlying vector spaces.
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