On flips of unitary buildings. I: Classification of flips

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM.2011.044MaRDI QIDQ2891072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rieuwert J. Blok, Benjamin Carr

Publication date 13 June 2012

Published in Advances in Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2301

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsflipsincidence geometryPhan involution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Other finite linear geometries (51E26)

Abstract: We classify flips of buildings arising from non-degenerate unitary spaces of dimension at least 4 over finite fields of odd characteristic in terms of their action on the underlying vector space. We also construct certain geometries related to flips and prove that these geometries are flag transitive.

Review text

The notion of a flip was introduced and used in [\textit{C. D. Bennett} et al., Curtis-Phan-Tits theory. Groups, combinatorics and geometry. Proceedings of the L.M.S. Durham symposium, Durham, UK, 2001. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific (2003; Zbl 1063.20012)] in order to prove theorems similar to the so-called Curtis-Phan-Tits theorem. The general goal is to simplify and understand better the classification of finite simple groups.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper under review is a step in this program. Here the building \(\Delta\) under consideration is the building associated to a unitary form on some field of cardinality \(q^2\), where \(q\) is a prime power. The authors provide a classification of flips. All of them are induced by a linear or semilinear transformation satisfying some conditions. Then, a flag-transitivity theorem for geometries associated to the flip are derived.

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