A quasi Curtis-Tits-Phan theorem for the symplectic group.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2007.07.014zbMath1148.20017arXiv0805.2680MaRDI QIDQ934070

Rieuwert J. Blok, Corneliu G. Hoffman

Publication date: 29 July 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2680

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic groups; amalgams; simply connected geometries; Tits lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20G40: Linear algebraic groups over finite fields

51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20D06: Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type

20E42: Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings

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