Flag-transitive extensions of dual projective spaces (Q1281142)

The authors consider geometries belonging to the following diagram of rank 3, where 0,1,2 are the types \(q,s\) are finite orders with \(q>1\) and \(s+1=(q^n-1)/(q-1)\) for some integer \(n>1\), the label \(c\) denotes the class of circular spaces and \(PG^*\) stands for the class of dual projective spaces, namely geometries of lines and points of a projective geometry. \[ \overset {0}{\underset {1}\bullet}{\overset\strut {c}\diagrbar}\overset {1}{\underset {s}\bullet}{\overset\strut {PG^*}\diagrbar} \overset {2}{\underset {q}\bullet} \] They describe a flag-transitive \(c.PG^*\)-geometry of order \(q=2\) and residual dimension \(n\), for any \(n>2\) and call that geometry \(\Gamma_n\). It is a subgeometry of \(D_{n+1}\)-building over \(GF(2)\). In \S 2.2 the authors describe one more flag-transitive example arises from \(D_4\)-building over \(GF(2)\). It has order 2 and residual dimension 3. It is denoted \(\Gamma_3'\). The main goal of the present article is to show the following theorem: The geometry \(\Gamma_n\) is the unique flag-transitive \(c.PG^*\) geometry of residual dimension \(n>3\) and there are just two flag-transitive \(c.PG^*\)-geometries of residual dimension 3, namely \(\Gamma_3\) and \(\Gamma_3'\).