Extending locally truncated geometries (Q5937245)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1618726
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Extending locally truncated geometries (English)
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10 July 2002
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Many geometries in application show up as truncations of other geometries. Whereas the geometry is a strange one or not easy to handle quite often geometry from which it was truncated is a very nice one and one knows a lot about it. So one of the approaches in this area is to reconstruct the original geometry. One famous paper which shows how this can work is due to \textit{M. Ronan} [Math. Z. 180, 489-501 (1982; Zbl 0487.05012)]. In the paper under review the authors give sufficient conditions to recognize that our geometry is a truncation. The only disadvantage might be that the construction just yields a chamber system and not a geometry in general. The conditions are a little bit technical and I will not state them here. But as the authors prove in quite a number of examples they seam to work very well. They apply it to \(c^n\cdot c^*\)-geometries, \(c_n\cdot L\)-geometries and a lot of sporadic geometries for \(M_{24},M(24)'\), \(Co_1,M,J_4\).
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