On Blocking Sets of External Lines to a Quadric in \(PG(3,q), q\) Prime

Paola Biondi1, Pia Maria Lo Re1
1DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E APPLICAZIONI, UNIVERSITA DI NAPOLI “FEDERICO II”, ITALY

Abstract

Minimal blocking sets of class \([h,k]\) with respect to the external lines to an elliptic quadric of \(\text{PG}(3,q)\), \(q \geq 5\) prime, are characterized.