Groups and Geometries Siena Conference, September 1996
On September 1-7, 1996 a conference on Groups and Geometries took place in lovely Siena, Italy. It brought together experts and interested mathematicians from numerous countries. The scientific program centered around invited exposi tory lectures; there also were shorter research announcements, inc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
| Series: | Trends in Mathematics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Quasithin groups
- The non-canonical gluings of two affine spaces
- The geometry far from a residue
- On flag-transitive incidence geometries of rank 6 for the Mathieu group M12
- On a connection between ovoids on the hyperbolic quadric Q+(10, q) and the Lie incidence geometry E6,1 (q)
- The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Janko group J1
- The first cohomology group and generation of simple groups
- A characterization of the Hall-Janko group J2 by a c.L* -geometry
- Affine extended dual polar spaces
- Derivable nets may be embedded in nonderivable planes
- Regular orbits and the k(GV)-problem
- Generating minimally transitive groups
- Maximal subgroups of finite exceptional groups
- Subgroup structure, fractal dimension, and Kac-Moody algebras
- Aspects of buildings
- Generalized quadrangles arising from groups generated by abstract transvection groups
- Embeddings of geometries in finite protective spaces: a survey
- Affine extensions of near hexagons related to the spin module of type B3
- Ovoids and spreads arising from involutions
- The Borel-Tits property for finite groups
- Generalized reflection groups I. Constructing the algebra