Groups of Exceptional Type, Coxeter Groups and Related Geometries

Book Overview

Chapter 1. A classification of Curtis-Tits amalgams.- Chapter 2. The use of valuations for classifying point-line geometries.- Chapter 3. An outline of polar spaces: basics and advances.- Chapter 4. Embeddings of Line-grassmannians of Polar Spaces in Grassmann Varieties.- Chapter 5. Generation of Lie Incidence Geometries: A Survey.- Chapter 6. Witt-Type Theorems for Subspaces of Lie Geometries: A Survey.- Chapter 7. Embeddings of cotriangular spaces.- Chapter 8. Unipotent Overgroups in Simple Algebraic Groups.- Chapter 9. The axes of a Majorana representation of A12.- Chapter 10. GIT related problems of the flag variety for the action of a maximal torus.- Chapter 11. Characterizations of trialities of type Iid in buildings of type D4.- Chapter 12. On the isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups and related topics.- Chapter 13. Lectures on Artin groups and the K(π; 1) conjecture. Chapter 14. Algebraic codes and geometry of some classical generalized polygons.- Chapter 15. Some Weyl modules of the algebraic groups of type E_6.- Problem Set.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8132235347
• ISBN13: 9788132235347
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"