Even-dimensional orthogonal groups as amalgams of unitary groups.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2004.09.025zbMath1109.20015OpenAlexW2029415219MaRDI QIDQ1764837

Ralf Köhl (né Gramlich), Corneliu G. Hoffman, Sergey V. Shpectorov, Werner Nickel

Publication date: 22 February 2005

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2004.09.025

zbMATH Keywords

special unitary groupsamalgamsgroups of Lie typesimple Chevalley groupsCurtis-Tits theoremPhan theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42)

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Uses Software

• GAP

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