Publications

[0] On Geometry and Combinatorics of Finite Classical Polar Spaces, V. Smaldore,

PhD Thesis, Università del Salento, Italy, 2023, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11131.

[1] Graphs cospectral with NU(n+1,q²), n≠3, F. Ihringer, F. Pavese, V. Smaldore,

Discrete Mathematics, 2021, 334(11), 112560, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012365X21002739.

[2] On regular systems of finite classical polar spaces, A. Cossidente, G. Marino, F. Pavese, V. Smaldore, 

European Journal of Combinatorics, 2022, 100, 103439, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195669821001323.

[3] The Automorphism Group of NU(3,q²), F. Romaniello, V. Smaldore,

Journal of Geometry, 2022, 113(3), 42, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00022-022-00658-y.

[4] New hemisystems of the Hermitian surface, V. Pallozzi Lavorante, V. Smaldore,

Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2023, 91(1), pp. 293-307, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10623-022-01107-2.

[5] On large partial ovoids of symplectic and Hermitian polar spaces, M. Ceria, J. De Beule, F. Pavese, V. Smaldore, 

Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 2023, 31(1), pp. 5-22, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcd.21864.

[6] All minimal [9,4]2-codes are hyperbolic quadrics, V. Smaldore,

Examples and Counterexamples, 2023, 3, 100097, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666657X22000301.

[7] On a graph isomorphic to NO+(6,2), F. Romaniello, V. Smaldore,

Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2024, 100, pp. 151-161, 

http://bica.the-ica.org/Volumes/100//Reprints/BICA2022-44-Reprint.pdf.

Conference proceeding

[8] A note on parabolic and linear one-factorizations of the complete graph Kp+1, Gy. Kiss, G. Korchmáros, F. Romaniello, 

V. Smaldore, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ITAT'24: Information technologies-Applications and Theory, September 20-22, 2024, Drienica Čergovské vrchy, Slovakia, Volume 3792, pp. 136-142, https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3792/paper16.pdf.

[9] Some non-existence results for m-ovoids in classical polar spaces, J. De Beule, J. Mannaert, V. Smaldore, 

European Journal of Combinatorics, 2024, 118, 103943, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195669824000283.

[10] New scattered linearized quadrinomials, V. Smaldore, C. Zanella, F. Zullo,

Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2024, 702, pp. 143-160, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024379524003331.

[11] Bent functions and strongly regular graphs, V. Smaldore,

Qeios, 2024, Vol. 6, https://www.qeios.com/read/A2V6PB.2.

[12] On the stabilizer of the graph of linear functions over finite fields, V. Smaldore, C. Zanella, F. Zullo, 

Forum Mathematicum, 2025, 37(6), pp. 1673-1687, 

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/forum-2023-0353/html.

[13] Switching equivalence of strongly regular polar graphs, G. P. Nagy, V. Smaldore,

Algebraic Combinatorics, 2026, 9(1), pp. 289-305,

https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/alco.470/. 

[14] Hemisystems and strongly regular graphs, V. Pallozzi Lavorante, F. Romaniello, V. Smaldore, 

Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2026, 379, pp. 1-6, 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X25004317. 

[15] Ramanujan polar graphs, V. Smaldore,

Journal of Algebraic Systems, 2026, 14(2), pp. 271-280, 

https://jas.shahroodut.ac.ir/article_3736.html. 

[16] Hermitian-Singer Functional and Differential Codes, G. Korchmáros, F. Romaniello, V. Smaldore,

Finite Fields and their Applications, 2026, 112, 102794, 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071579726000055.

[17] Strongly regular graphs from hyperbolic quadrics and their maximal cliques, A. Cossidente, J. De Beule, G. Marino, 

F. Pavese, V. Smaldore, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 2026, 96(1), pp. 10-26, https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/96/ajc_v96_p010.pdf. 

Preprint

[1] Regular fat linear sets, V. Smaldore, C. Zanella, F. Zullo,

accepted by Designs, Codes and Cryptography, https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04581. 

[2] List of constructions of NO+(6,2), V. Smaldore,

submitted to Theory and Applications of Graphs, https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03235.

[3] Equivalences of rank distance codes, V. Smaldore,

submitted to Springer Proceedings in Mathematics&Statistics.

Other publications

[1] 2nd edition of “Finite Geometry and Friends” – A Brussels’ summer school on finite geometry, communicated by C. Castello, V. Smaldore,

Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2024, 100, pp. 24-27, http://bica.the-ica.org/BICAFull/Vol100.pdf.

[2] Stabilizers of graphs of linear functions and rank-metric codes, V. Smaldore, C. Zanella, F. Zullo, 

Extended Abstract for WCC 2024: The Thirteenth International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, https://wcc2024.sites.dmi.unipg.it/WCC_proceedings.pdf.