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Sporadic group geometries and the action of involutions

Part of: Finite geometry and special incidence structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Peter Rowley
Peter Rowley
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
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Abstract

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This paper is an expository introduction to recent and current work on geometries associated with minimal parabolic subgroups and maximal 2-local subgroups of finite sporadic, based on lectures given by the authors at the Canberra Group Workshop, held at the Australian National University in June 1993.

MSC classification

Secondary: 51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , August 1994 , pp. 35 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1994

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