A geometric characterization of Moufang hexagons

DOI10.1007/BF01418928zbMath0429.51002MaRDI QIDQ1137778

Mark A. Ronan

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142709

zbMATH Keywords

generalized hexagon; Moufang hexagon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20B25: Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures

05B30: Other designs, configurations

51A20: Configuration theorems in linear incidence geometry

51A35: Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes

Related Items

Finite groups, Embeddings and hyperplanes of discrete geometries, Partial linear spaces built on hexagons, The combinatorics of automorphisms and opposition in generalised polygons, Embeddings of small generalized polygons, A note on the \(^3D_4(q)\) generalized hexagons, A remark on the theorem of Yanushka and Ronan characterizing the generalized hexagon H(q) arising from the group \(G_ 2(\)q), On central root automorphisms of finite generalised hexagons, Groups generated by \(k\)-root subgroups, Abstract root subgroups and quadratic action. With an Appendix by A. E. Zalesskii, Simple groups of finite Morley rank and Tits buildings, Connectedness of opposite-flag geometries in Moufang polygons, Half-regular and regular points in compact polygons, Finite distance-transitive generalized polygons, The non-existence of certain regular generalized polygons, A combinatorial characterization of some finite classical generalized hexagons, Some combinatorial and geometric characterizations of the finite dual classical generalized hexagons, Symmetric designs form the \(G_2(q)\) generalized hexagons, Moufang polygons and irreducible spherical BN-pairs of rank 2. I, Half-Moufang generalized hexagons., A configurational characterization of the Moufang generalized polygons, Codes from generalized hexagons, Algebraic Codes and Geometry of Some Classical Generalized Polygons, Intransitive geometries and fused amalgams, Apartments and the cayley-algebra module for G₂(k)

Cites Work

• Composition algebras and their automorphisms
• Sur la trialité et certains groupes qui s'en déduisent
• Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs
• Groups with a (B,N)-pair of rank 2. I
• Generalized hexagons of order \((t,t)\)
• Non-existence de certains polygones généralises. I
• On the foundations of polar geometry
• The nonexistence of certain generalized polygons
• Groups with Steinberg relations and coordinatization of polygonal geometries