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Points and Lines [electronic resource] : Characterizing the Classical Geometries / by Ernest Shult.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UniversitextPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011Description: XXII, 676 p. 88 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783642156274
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 516 23
LOC classification:
  • QA440-699
Online resources:
Contents:
I.Basics -- 1 Basics about Graphs -- 2 .Geometries: Basic Concepts -- 3 .Point-line Geometries.-4.Hyperplanes, Embeddings and Teirlinck's Eheory -- II.The Classical Geometries -- 5 .Projective Planes.-6.Projective Spaces -- 7.Polar Spaces -- 8.Near Polygons -- III.Methodology -- 9.Chamber Systems and Buildings -- 10.2-Covers of Chamber Systems -- 11.Locally Truncated Diagram Geometries.-12.Separated Systems of Singular Spaces -- 13 Cooperstein's Theory of Symplecta and Parapolar Spaces -- IV.Applications to Other Lie Incidence Geometries -- 15.Characterizing the Classical Strong Parapolar Spaces: The Cohen-Cooperstein Theory Revisited -- 16.Characterizing Strong Parapolar Spaces by the Relation between Points and Certain Maximal Singular Subspaces -- 17.Point-line Characterizations of the “Long Root Geometries” -- 18.The Peculiar Pentagon Property.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The classical geometries of points and lines include not only the projective and polar spaces, but similar truncations of geometries naturally arising from the groups of Lie type. Virtually all of these geometries (or homomorphic images of them) are characterized in this book by simple local axioms on points and lines. Simple point-line characterizations of Lie incidence geometries allow one to recognize Lie incidence geometries and their automorphism groups. These tools could be useful in shortening the enormously lengthy classification of finite simple groups. Similarly, recognizing ruled manifolds by axioms on light trajectories offers a way for a physicist to recognize the action of a Lie group in a context where it is not clear what Hamiltonians or Casimir operators are involved. The presentation is self-contained in the sense that proofs proceed step-by-step from elementary first principals without further appeal to outside results. Several chapters have new heretofore unpublished research results. On the other hand, certain groups of chapters would make good graduate courses. All but one chapter provide exercises for either use in such a course, or to elicit new research directions.
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I.Basics -- 1 Basics about Graphs -- 2 .Geometries: Basic Concepts -- 3 .Point-line Geometries.-4.Hyperplanes, Embeddings and Teirlinck's Eheory -- II.The Classical Geometries -- 5 .Projective Planes.-6.Projective Spaces -- 7.Polar Spaces -- 8.Near Polygons -- III.Methodology -- 9.Chamber Systems and Buildings -- 10.2-Covers of Chamber Systems -- 11.Locally Truncated Diagram Geometries.-12.Separated Systems of Singular Spaces -- 13 Cooperstein's Theory of Symplecta and Parapolar Spaces -- IV.Applications to Other Lie Incidence Geometries -- 15.Characterizing the Classical Strong Parapolar Spaces: The Cohen-Cooperstein Theory Revisited -- 16.Characterizing Strong Parapolar Spaces by the Relation between Points and Certain Maximal Singular Subspaces -- 17.Point-line Characterizations of the “Long Root Geometries” -- 18.The Peculiar Pentagon Property.

The classical geometries of points and lines include not only the projective and polar spaces, but similar truncations of geometries naturally arising from the groups of Lie type. Virtually all of these geometries (or homomorphic images of them) are characterized in this book by simple local axioms on points and lines. Simple point-line characterizations of Lie incidence geometries allow one to recognize Lie incidence geometries and their automorphism groups. These tools could be useful in shortening the enormously lengthy classification of finite simple groups. Similarly, recognizing ruled manifolds by axioms on light trajectories offers a way for a physicist to recognize the action of a Lie group in a context where it is not clear what Hamiltonians or Casimir operators are involved. The presentation is self-contained in the sense that proofs proceed step-by-step from elementary first principals without further appeal to outside results. Several chapters have new heretofore unpublished research results. On the other hand, certain groups of chapters would make good graduate courses. All but one chapter provide exercises for either use in such a course, or to elicit new research directions.

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