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The present chapter is devoted to the study of quadrics and quadratic sets of a projective space. The main result is the Theorem of Buekenhout saying that every nondegenerate quadratic set is either an ovoid or a quadric (cf. Theorems 6.4 and 6.5).
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Ueberberg, J. (2011). Quadrics and Quadratic Sets. In: Foundations of Incidence Geometry. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20972-7_5
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