• Title of article

    Quadrangles embedded in metasymplectic spaces

  • Author/Authors

    K. Struyve، نويسنده , , Koen، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    1579
  • To page
    1585
  • 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 Mühlherr 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. s 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?
  • Journal title
    European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Record number

    1549692