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Tits Triangles

Part of:Structure and classification of infinite or finite groupsFinite geometry and special incidence structuresOther nonassociative rings and algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2018

Bernhard Mühlherr and
Richard M. Weiss
Bernhard Mühlherr
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany Email: bernhard.m.muehlherr@math.uni-giessen.de
Richard M. Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA Email: rweiss@tufts.edu
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Abstract

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A Tits polygon is a bipartite graph in which the neighborhood of every vertex is endowed with an “opposition relation” satisfying certain properties. Moufang polygons are precisely the Tits polygons in which these opposition relations are all trivial. There is a standard construction that produces a Tits polygon whose opposition relations are not all trivial from an arbitrary pair $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5},T)$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}$ is a building of type $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$ is a spherical, irreducible Coxeter diagram of rank at least $3$, and $T$ is a Tits index of absolute type $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$ and relative rank $2$. A Tits polygon is called $k$-plump if its opposition relations satisfy a mild condition that is satisfied by all Tits triangles coming from a pair $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5},T)$ such that every panel of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}$ has at least $k+1$ chambers. We show that a $5$-plump Tits triangle is parametrized and uniquely determined by a ring $R$ that is alternative and of stable rank $2$. We use the connection between Tits triangles and the theory of Veldkamp planes as developed by Veldkamp and Faulkner to show existence.

Keywords

Tits polygonVeldkamp planebuilding

MSC classification

Primary:17D05: Alternative rings
Secondary:20E42: Groups with a $BN$-pair; buildings51E12: Generalized quadrangles, generalized polygons51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

Information

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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 2019, pp. 583 - 601
Copyright
© Canadian Mathematical Society 2018 

Footnotes

The work of the first author was partially supported by a grant from the DFG and the work of the second author was partially supported by a collaboration grant from the Simons Foundation.

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