Definition
Let K be a field with an involutive automorphism . Let n be an integer and V be an (n+1)-dimensional vectorspace over K.
A Hermitian variety H in PG(V) is a set of points of which the representing vector lines consisting of isotropic points of a non-trivial Hermitian sesquilinear form on V.
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