Affiliation: | (1) Dipartimento di Matematica, Seconda Università di Napoli, via Vivaldi, 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy;(2) Dipartimento di Matematica R. Caccioppoli, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy;(3) Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Siena, Pian dei Matellini, 22, 53100 Siena, Italy |
Abstract: | Let be a non-degenerate polar space of rank n 3 where all of its lines have at least three points. We prove that, if admits a lax embedding e : in a projective space defined over a skewfield K, then is a classical and defined over a sub-skewfield K0 of K. Accordingly, admits a full embedding e0 in a K0-projective space 0. We also prove that, under suitable hypotheses on e and e0, there exists an embedding such that and preserves dimensions.Received: March, 2004 |