Polarities and planar collineations of Moufang planes (Q1942324)

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Polarities and planar collineations of Moufang planes
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    Polarities and planar collineations of Moufang planes (English)
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    18 March 2013
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    The authors study collineations and correlations of Moufang planes. They show that conjugacy classes of Baer involutions are not refined if one restricts the conjugating element to the stabilizer of a quadrangle, and then they establish an interrelation between Baer involutions and polarities. Finally, they use their results to prove a transitivity result for centralizers of polarities (Theorem 5.3).
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    Moufang plane
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    translation plane
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    Baer involution
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    polarity
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    conjugacy
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    semifield
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    division algebra
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    alternative algebra
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    composition algebra
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    octonion field
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    automorphism
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    autotopism
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