Bireflectionality of the weak orthogonal and the weak symplectic groups

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(84)90090-5zbMath0533.20020OpenAlexW2064877518MaRDI QIDQ789515

Erich W. Ellers, Wolfgang Nolte, Rolfdieter Frank

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(84)90090-5

zbMATH Keywords

isometrysymplectic transvectionsproducts of reflectionsbireflectional groupproduct of involutionsweak orthogonal group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25)

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