On a quasi-Phan theorem for orthogonal groups.

DOI10.1080/00927872.2011.634872zbMATH Open1283.20058arXiv0905.2906OpenAlexW2061801176MaRDI QIDQ5326243FDOQ5326243

Authors: Corneliu G. Hoffman, Adam M. Roberts 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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