Connected orbits in topological generalized quadrangles

DOI10.1007/BF03322233MaRDI QIDQ1921429zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bernhild Stroppel, Markus Stroppel

Publication date 12 March 1997

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322233

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupcollineationsubgeometrytopological generalized quadrangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Topological linear incidence structures (51H10)

Review text

The authors consider the subgeometries generated by special subsets of a topological generalized quadrangle \(Q\) [as defined by the reviewer and \textit{N. Knarr} in Topology Appl. 34, No. 2, 139-152 (1990; Zbl 0692.51008)]. For example, they show that every nonempty open subset generates \(Q\), if \(Q\) is not discrete. The paper aims at applications to orbits of connected automorphism groups, in the spirit of the work of Salzmann and others on compact connected projective planes [compare \textit{H. Salzmann, D. Betten, Th. Grundhöfer, H. Hähl, R. Löwen}, and \textit{M. Stroppel}, `Compact projective planes,' De Gruyter, Berlin (1996; Zbl 0851.51003)]. In particular, it is proved that each nontrivial connected automorphism group of a compact connected generalized quadrangle \(Q\) has two orbits on points or lines which together generate a weak subquadrangle of \(Q\) of positive topological dimension. In another paper by the authors [Arch. Math. 66, 77-79 (1996)], this is used to prove that the automorphism group of \(Q\) has finite topological dimension, if \(Q\) has finite topological dimension.

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