A characterisation of weakly locally projective amalgams related to A₁₆ and the sporadic simple groups M₂₄ and He.

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06)

Abstract: A simple undirected graph is weakly

G

-locally projective, for a group of automorphisms

G

, if for each vertex

x

, the stabiliser

G (x)

induces on the set of vertices adjacent to

x

a doubly transitive action with socle the projective group

L_{n_{x}} (q_{x})

for an integer

n_{x}

and a prime power

q_{x}

. It is

G

-locally projective if in addition

G

is vertex transitive. A theorem of Trofimov reduces the classification of the

G

-locally projective graphs to the case where the distance factors are as in one of the known examples. Although an analogue of Trofimov's result is not yet available for weakly locally projective graphs, we would like to begin a program of characterising some of the remarkable examples. We show that if a graph is weakly locally projective with each

q_{x} = 2

and

n_{x} = 2

or

3

, and if the distance factors are as in the examples arising from the rank 3 tilde geometries of the groups

M_{24}

and

H e

, then up to isomorphism there are exactly two possible amalgams. Moreover, we consider an infinite family of amalgams of type

m a t h c a l U_{n}

(where each

q_{x} = 2

and

n = n_{x} + 1 g e q 4

) and prove that if

n g e q 5

there is a unique amalgam of type

m a t h c a l U_{n}

and it is unfaithful, whereas if

n = 4

then there are exactly four amalgams of type

m a t h c a l U_{4}

, precisely two of which are faithful, namely the ones related to

M_{24}

and

H e

, and one other which has faithful completion

A_{16}

.

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