Geometry of Sporadic Groups (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521623490
Subjects: Geometry; Groups & group theory; Mathematics; Theory Of Groups; Science/Mathematics; Algebra - General; General; Geometry - General; Mathematics / Algebra / General; Group Theory; Sporadic groups (Mathematics)
First sentence: In this introductory chapter after recalling the main notions and notation concerning diagram geometries and their flag-transitive automorphism groups we prove the fundamental principle (Theorem 1.4.5), which relates the universal cover of a geometry G and the universal completion of the amalgam A of maximal parabolics in a flat-transitive automorphism group of G of A.