The Curtis-Tits-presentation.

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2003.11.005zbMath1113.20029OpenAlexW1995344984MaRDI QIDQ1887446

Franz G. Timmesfeld

Publication date: 26 November 2004

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2003.11.005

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated productsCurtis-Tits presentationsgroups of Lie-typefundamental systems of rootsirreducible spherical Moufang buildingsroot-subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42)

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