A geometric characterization of Moufang hexagons

DOI10.1007/BF01418928zbMath0429.51002MaRDI QIDQ1137778

Mark A. Ronan

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142709

zbMATH Keywords

generalized hexagon; Moufang hexagon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20B25: Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures

05B30: Other designs, configurations

51A20: Configuration theorems in linear incidence geometry

51A35: Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes

Related Items

Finite groups, Embeddings and hyperplanes of discrete geometries, Partial linear spaces built on hexagons, Embeddings of small generalized polygons, A note on the \(^3D_4(q)\) generalized hexagons, A remark on the theorem of Yanushka and Ronan characterizing the generalized hexagon H(q) arising from the group \(G_ 2(\)q), On central root automorphisms of finite generalised hexagons, Groups generated by \(k\)-root subgroups, Abstract root subgroups and quadratic action. With an Appendix by A. E. Zalesskii, Simple groups of finite Morley rank and Tits buildings, Connectedness of opposite-flag geometries in Moufang polygons, Half-regular and regular points in compact polygons, Finite distance-transitive generalized polygons, The non-existence of certain regular generalized polygons, A combinatorial characterization of some finite classical generalized hexagons, Some combinatorial and geometric characterizations of the finite dual classical generalized hexagons, Symmetric designs form the \(G_2(q)\) generalized hexagons, Moufang polygons and irreducible spherical BN-pairs of rank 2. I, Half-Moufang generalized hexagons., A configurational characterization of the Moufang generalized polygons, Codes from generalized hexagons, Intransitive geometries and fused amalgams, Apartments and the cayley-algebra module for G₂(k)

Cites Work

• Composition algebras and their automorphisms
• Sur la trialité et certains groupes qui s'en déduisent
• Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs
• Groups with a (B,N)-pair of rank 2. I
• Generalized hexagons of order \((t,t)\)
• Non-existence de certains polygones généralises. I
• On the foundations of polar geometry
• The nonexistence of certain generalized polygons
• Groups with Steinberg relations and coordinatization of polygonal geometries