Configurations of lines and models of Lie algebras

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.04.029zbMATH Open1167.17001arXivmath/0507118OpenAlexW2058711712WikidataQ56017597 ScholiaQ56017597MaRDI QIDQ853933FDOQ853933

Authors: Laurent Manivel 

Publication date: 7 December 2006

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

Abstract: The automorphism groups of the 27 lines on the smooth cubic surface or the 28 bitangents to the general quartic plane curve are well-known to be closely related to the Weyl groups of $E_6$ and $E_7$. We show how classical subconfigurations of lines, such as double-sixes, triple systems or Steiner sets, are easily constructed from certain models of the exceptional Lie algebras. For ${mathfrake}_7$ and ${mathfrake}_8$ we are lead to beautiful models graded over the octonions, which display these algebras as plane projective geometries of subalgebras. We also interpret the group of the bitangents as a group of transformations of the triangles in the Fano plane, and show how this allows to realize the isomorphism $PSL(3,F_2)simeqPSL(2,F_7)$ in terms of harmonic cubes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507118

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zbMATH Keywords

del Pezzo surfaceSteiner triple systemsSteiner setstritangent planesdouble-sixes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Steiner systems in finite geometry (51E10) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Exceptional (super)algebras (17B25)

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