Groups with Steinberg relations and coordinatization of polygonal geometries

DOI10.1090/memo/0185zbMath0391.17002OpenAlexW2083943481MaRDI QIDQ4172186

John R. Faulkner

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0185

zbMATH Keywords

Commutator RelationsCoordinatization of Polygonal GeometriesElationsGroups with Steinberg RelationsNonassociative Division AlgebrasProjectives Planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Commutator calculus (20F12) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Alternative rings (17D05) Algebraization in linear incidence geometry (51A25) Nonassociative division algebras (17A35)

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