The Curtis-Tits-presentation.

DOI10.1016/j.aim.2003.11.005zbMath1113.20029MaRDI QIDQ1887446

Franz G. Timmesfeld

Publication date: 26 November 2004

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2003.11.005

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated products; Curtis-Tits presentations; groups of Lie-type; fundamental systems of roots; irreducible spherical Moufang buildings; root-subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20E42: Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings

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