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Record Nr.

UNISA996466500103316

Titolo

Buildings and the geometry of diagrams : lectures given at the 3rd 1984 session of the Centro internazionale matematico estivo (CIME) held at Como, Italy, august 26 - september 4, 1984 / / edited by L. A. Rosati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1986]

©1986

ISBN

3-540-39801-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 1986.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 282 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1181

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Finite simple groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

The geometry of the finite simple groups -- Generalized polygons, SCABs and GABs -- Immeubles de Type Affine -- Point-line characterizations of buildings -- Constructions of chamber systems of type M with transitive automorphism group -- Covers of finite geometries with non-spherical minimal circuit diagram -- A construction of buildings with no rank 3 residues of spherical type -- Tits chamber systems and finite group theory.