Moufang sets arising from polarities of Moufang planes over octonion division algebras

DOI10.1007/S00229-013-0622-1zbMATH Open1285.51006arXiv1207.1015OpenAlexW2060462062MaRDI QIDQ2436633FDOQ2436633

Elizabeth Callens, Tom De Medts

Publication date: 25 February 2014

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For every octonion division algebra O, there exists a projective plane which is parametrized by O; these planes are related to rank two forms of linear algebraic groups of absolute type E6. We study all possible polarities of such octonion planes having absolute points, and their corresponding Moufang set. It turns out that there are four different types of polarities, giving rise to (1) Moufang sets of type F4, (2) Moufang sets of type 2E6, (3) hermitian Moufang sets of type C4, and (4) projective Moufang sets over a 5-dimensional subspace of an octonion division algebra. Case (3) only occurs over fields of characteristic different from two, whereas case (4) only occurs over fields of characteristic equal to two. The Moufang sets of type 2E6 that we obtain in case (2) are exactly those corresponding to linear algebraic groups of type 2E6,1^29; the explicit description of those Moufang sets was not yet known.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1015

zbMATH Keywords

Moufang setspolaritiesoctonion planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exceptional groups (20G41) Exceptional Jordan structures (17C40) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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