From buildings to point-line geometries and back again

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Authors E. E. Shult

Publication date 5 September 2012

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

buildingschamber systemsGrassmanniansincidence geometryparapolar spacespoint-line geometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

The author surveys results about geometries and chamber systems, in particular those associated to buildings. He describes a construction due to Pasini to assign to a building and a type of points-to-be a Grassmannian, which is a point-line geometry. He then goes on to consider the inverse problem, namely given a point-line geometry to determine in which way it can arise as a Grassmannian. In answering this question he concentrates on parapolar spaces, which were introduced by Cohen.

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