The non-existence of certain regular generalized polygons

DOI10.1007/BF01193554MaRDI QIDQ1345873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hendrik Van Maldeghem

Publication date 19 March 1995

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01193554

zbMATH Keywords

generalized polygonsregularityTits buildings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

The paper introduces the notion of distance-\(i\)-regularity and regularity in generalized polygons, thus generalizing the notion of `regular point' in a generalized quadrangle or hexagon. It is shown that a thick generalized polygon cannot contain too many regular points unless it is a projective plane, quadrangle or hexagon. For certain polygons (thick `odd'-gons and 8-gons), even a certain number of distance-2-regular points cannot exist. As an application, a geometric and rather elementary proof of the non-existence of thick buildings of spherical type \(H_ 3\) is presented.

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