Generating triples of involutions of Chevalley groups over a finite field of characteristic 2 (Q2277573)

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Generating triples of involutions of Chevalley groups over a finite field of characteristic 2
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    Generating triples of involutions of Chevalley groups over a finite field of characteristic 2 (English)
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    The following result is proved. A simple Chevalley group (of normal or twisted type) over a finite field of characteristic 2 is generated by three involutions two of which are permutable if and only if the type of the group is different from \(A_ 2\), \(^ 2A_ 2\), \(A_ 3\) and \(^ 2A_ 3\).
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    simple Chevalley groups
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    groups generated by three involutions
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