Ree geometries

DOI10.1515/FORM.2011.002MaRDI QIDQ3074815zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabienne Haot, Koen Struyve, Hendrik Van Maldeghem

Publication date 10 February 2011

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3211

zbMATH Keywords

collineation groupMoufang setovoidpolarityRee groupRee hexagonunital

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) General block designs in finite geometry (51E05) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

Abstract: We introduce a rank 3 geometry for any Ree group over a not necessarily perfect field and show that its full collineation group is the automorphism group of the corresponding Ree group. A similar result holds for two rank 2 geometries obtained as a truncation of this rank 3 geometry. As an application, we show that a polarity in any Moufang generalized hexagon is unambiguously determined by its set of absolute points, or equivalently, its set of absolute lines.

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