Commutation relations of \mathfrak g\_2 and the incidence geometry of the Fano plane

arXiv2207.13946MaRDI QIDQ6406330FDOQ6406330

M. Rausch de Traubenberg, M. J. Slupinski

Publication date: 28 July 2022

Abstract: We continue our study and classification of structures on the Fano plane $calF$ and its dual ${calF}^{a}st$ involved in the construction of octonions and the Lie algebra $mathfrak{g}_2(mathbbF)$ over a field $mathbbF$. These are a "composition factor": $calFimescalFo-1,1$, inducing an octonion multiplication, and a function $delt{a}^{a}st:Aut(calF)imes{calF}^{a}sto-1,1$ such that $ginAut(calF)$ can be lifted to an automorphism of the octonions iff $delt{a}^{a}st(g,cdot)$ is the Radon transform of a function on $calF$. We lift the action of $Aut(calF)$ on $calF$ to the action of a non-trivial eight-fold covering $Aut(calF)$ on a twofold covering $hatcalF$ of $calF$ contained in the octonions. This extends tautologically to an action on the octonions by automorphism. Finally, we associate to incident point-line pairs a generating set of $mathfrak{g}_2(mathbbF)$ and express brackets in terms of the incidence geometry of $calF$ and $epsilon$.

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