The Geometry of Extremal Elements in a Lie Algebra

DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-0709-6_2zbMath1278.17003MaRDI QIDQ2917237

Arjeh M. Cohen

Publication date: 28 September 2012

Published in: Buildings, Finite Geometries and Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0709-6_2

zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebra; Lie incidence geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B05: Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras

17B45: Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups

51B25: Lie geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry

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Extremal elements in Lie algebras, buildings and structurable algebras

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