A short proof that root groups are nilpotent.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2003.07.008MaRDI QIDQ1882892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katrin Tent

Publication date 1 October 2004

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2003.07.008

zbMATH Keywords

Moufang polygonsroot groupsspherical Moufang buildingsunipotent radical

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

In this note the author gives a surprisingly short, elegant and wonderful proof of the fact that the root groups of a Moufang generalized polygon, and more generally, any Moufang spherical building, are nilpotent. There are not really new applications, but this proof provides a more geometric and direct approach to, or shortcuts in proofs of other, deeper, results like the nonexistence of certain Moufang \(n\)-gons (more precisely, for \(n\neq 3,4,5,6,8\)), and the nilpotency of the unipotent radical of the Borel subgroup of a Moufang BN-pair of rank at least 2.

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