Hermitian hyperbolic plane over a finite field

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In a two-dimensional nondegenerate Hermitian form over a quadratic finite field, choose an orthonormal basis and with . Then is an isotropic vector. Choose with , and choose with . The vector satisfies and . Thus give the displayed matrix, including in characteristic two. Iterating on nondegenerate orthogonal complement for a sesquilinear form leaves only a unit-norm line in odd dimension.

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