scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2133097
Thick irreducible spherical buildings of rank at least three and their rank two residues satisfy the Moufang condition. It was proposed by \textit{J. Tits} [Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs, Lecture Notes Math. 386 (1974; Zbl 0295.20047)] to classify the thick irreducible spherical buildings of rank two, that is, thick generalized polygons, and use these results to give a simpler and more uniform proof for the classification of thick irreducible spherical buildings of higher rank. This was achieved by \textit{J. Tits} and \textit{R. M. Weiss} [Moufang polygons, Springer, Berlin (2002; Zbl 1010.20017)]. The paper under review is a very accessible survey of the theory of Moufang polygons. Generalized \(n\)-gons are introduced as connected bipartite graphs with diameter \(n\geq 2\) and girth \(2n\). A Moufang \(n\)-gon, \(n\geq 3\), is a thick generalized \(n\)-gon \(\Gamma\) such that for every root \(\alpha\) the root group \(U_\alpha\) acts transitively on the set of apartments of \(\Gamma\) containing \(\alpha\). Moufang \(n\)-gons exist only for \(n\in\{3,4,6,8\}\). The paper presents the classification results of Tits and Weiss (loc. cit.) on Moufang polygons by describing associated algebraic structures including in the hardest case of the six different families of Moufang quadrangles the quadrangular systems recently discovered by the first author [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 818, 99 p. (2005; Zbl 1065.51003)]. It further reviews some alternative characterizations of the Moufang condition, other conditions on group actions on generalized polygons and characterizations of isomorphisms as distance-preserving maps. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1050.51002].
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