The universal embedding for the involution geometry of the Suzuki sporadic simple group (Q2365298)

The author continues the work started in his previous article [ibid., 367-383 (1996) see the paper above] determining the universal embeddings of the involution geometries for the following groups: \(U_4(3)\subset Suz \subset Co_1\). Let \(\Gamma\) be the involution geometry for \(Suz\); this geometry is over \(F_2\) in the sense that are 3 points on each line, and let \(V_\Gamma\) be the universal embedding of \(\Gamma\). It is proved that the universal embedding of the involution geometry of \(Suz\) over \(\mathbb{F}_2\) is 143-dimensional. The proof uses information about two particular types of subgeometries in \(\Gamma\), the involution geometry for \(G_2(2)\), also known as the dual hexagon, and the involution geometry for \(J_2\), also known as its near-octagon geometry. First, the author proves existence of 143-dimensional embedding, \(V_{143}\), for \(\Gamma\). Determining of the upper bound is more difficult. By the obtained bound it is obvious that the kernel of the map from \(V_\Gamma\) to \(V_{143}\) has dimension less than 138; and since the smallest nontrivial irreducible for \(Suz.2\) (the full automorphism group of \(\Gamma)\) has dimension 142, it is evident that \(Suz\) must act trivially on this kernel. The rest of the paper is devoted to using techniques of modular representation theory to show this kernel is zero.