Quadrangles embedded in metasymplectic spaces

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2009.07.012zbMATH Open1207.51002arXiv0909.4960OpenAlexW1974536115MaRDI QIDQ992786FDOQ992786

Authors: Koen Struyve 

Publication date: 10 September 2010

Published in: European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: During the final steps in the classification of the Moufang quadrangles by Jacques Tits and Richard Weiss a new class of Moufang quadrangles unexpectedly turned up. Subsequently Bernhard Muhlherr and Hendrik Van Maldeghem showed that this class arises as the fixed points and hyperlines of certain involutions of a metasymplectic space (or equivalently a building of type F_4). In the same paper they also showed that other types of Moufang quadrangles can be embedded in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines. In this paper, we reverse the question: given a (thick) quadrangle embedded in a metasymplectic space as points and hyperlines, when is such a quadrangle a Moufang quadrangle?

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4960

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingpolar spacemetasymplectic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

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