Special rank one groups are perfect.

MaRDI QIDQ2016988zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anja Steinbach

Publication date 24 June 2014

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5447

zbMATH Keywords

abstract rank one groupsbuildingsMoufang setsroot groupsspecial rank one groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: T. De Medts, Y. Segev and K. Tent [Special Moufang sets, their root groups and their mu-maps, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 96 (2008), 767-791] proved that the little projective group of a special Moufang set M(U, au) is perfect provided that U has size at least 4. We give a short, elementary and self-contained argument, working with Timmesfeld's concept of special (abstract) rank one groups with arbitrary unipotent subgroups [Abstract root subgroups and simple groups of Lie type, Monographs in Mathematics, 95. Birkh"auser, 2001].

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