Ovoidal blocking sets and maximal partial ovoids of Hermitian varieties
In Mazzocca et al. (Des. Codes Cryptogr. 44:97-113, 2007), large minimal blocking sets in PG(3, q (2)) and PG(4, q (2)) have been constructed starting from ovoids of PG(3, q), Q(4, q) and Q(6, q). Some of these can be embedded in a Hermitian variety as maximal partial ovoids. In this paper, the geometric conditions assuring these embeddings are established.
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