Classification of Curtis-Tits and Phan amalgams with 3-spherical diagram

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Kac-Moody groups (20G44) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: We classify all non-collapsing Curtis-Tits and Phan amalgams with

3

-spherical diagram over all fields. In particular, we show that amalgams with spherical diagram are unique, a result required by the classification of finite simple groups. We give a simple condition on the amalgam which is necessary and sufficient for it to arise from a group of Kac-Moody type. This also yields a definition of a large class of groups of Kac-Moody type in terms of a finite presentation.

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The main aim of this paper is to classify all non-collapsing Curtis-Tits and Phan amalgamns with \(3\)-spherical diagram over arbitrary fields, in particular encompassing also the case of small finite fields which was previously open. The main result (in full generality) is the following. Theorem: Let \(q\) be any prime power and let \(\Gamma\) be a connected \(3\)-spherical diagram with homotopy rank \(n\); then, \begin{itemize} \item[1.] there is a bijection between the elements of \(\prod_{s=1}^r\Aut({\mathbb{F}_{q^2}})\) and the type-preserving isomorphism classes of Phan amalgams with diagram \(\Gamma\) over \(\mathbb{F}_q\); \item[2.] there exists a set of positive integers \(\{e_1,\dots,e_r\}\) so that there is a bijection between the elements of \(\prod_{s=1}^r\Aut({\mathbb F}_{q^{e_s}})\times {\mathbb{Z}}/2\mathbb{Z}\) and the type preserving isomorphism classes of Curtis-Tits amalgams with diagram \(\Gamma\) over \(\mathbb{F}_q\). \end{itemize}

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