Flocks, Ovoids of Q(4,q)and Designs

We prove that an ovoid O of Q(4,q),q odd, is the Thas' ovoid associated with a semifield flock if and only if O represents, on the Klein quadric, a symplectic spread of PG(3,q), whose associated plane is a semifiled plane.

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