Regularity of even-characteristic pseudo-ovoids

Determine whether every pseudo-ovoid in PG(4n − 1, q) for even q is regular.

Background

Pseudo-ovoids generalize ovoids by replacing points with (n − 1)-dimensional subspaces. Regular pseudo-ovoids are obtained by field reduction from ovoids in PG(3, qn). In even characteristic, all known pseudo-ovoids are regular, but the paper does not prove that every such pseudo-ovoid is regular.

References

Open problem 7. Is every pseudo-ovoid of PG(4n − 1, q), q even, regular?

Arcs, Caps and Generalisations in a Finite Projective Space  (2503.06243 - Hirschfeld et al., 8 Mar 2025) in Open problem 7, Section 8.3, page 8