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On Generalized Hexagons which Admit a Fundamental System of Root Automorphisms
Author(s) -
Walker Michael
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
proceedings of the london mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.899
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1460-244X
pISSN - 0024-6115
DOI - 10.1112/plms/s3-45.2.281
Subject(s) - mathematics , automorphism , pure mathematics , projective test , root (linguistics) , algebra over a field , linguistics , philosophy
One of the most important contributions to the theory of finite projective planes which admit non‐trivial elations was made some years ago by Piper. The geometric situation which he considered can be formulated for all generalized polygons. Here we seek an analogue of Piper's theorem for finite generalized hexagons.