On a quasi-Phan theorem for orthogonal groups.

DOI10.1080/00927872.2011.634872MaRDI QIDQ5326243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corneliu G. Hoffman, Adam M. Roberts

Publication date 5 August 2013

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2906

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsorthogonal groupsCurtis-Tits theoremPhan theoremamalgam presentations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: This paper constructs a presentation for the orthogonal groups. The amalgam is contained in that constructed by Ralf Gramlich Hendrik Van Maldeghem and arXiv:0708.1583 but it's shorter.

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