Author : Ilaria Cardinali
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3764385081
This book offers a complete proof of the Fundamental Theorem of q-Clan Geometry, followed by a detailed study of the known examples. It completely works out the collineation groups of the associated generalized quadrangles and the stabilizers of their associated ovals.
Author : Alexander Hulpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3110199742
This volume is the proceedings of a conference on Finite Geometries, Groups, and Computation that took place on September 4-9, 2004, at Pingree Park, Colorado (a campus of Colorado State University). Not accidentally, the conference coincided with the 60th birthday of William Kantor, and the topics relate to his major research areas. Participants were encouraged to explore the deeper interplay between these fields. The survey papers by Kantor, O'Brien, and Penttila should serve to introduce both students and the broader mathematical community to these important topics and some of their connections while the volume as a whole gives an overview of current developments in these fields.
Author : N.S. Narasimha Sastry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 8132218140
The book deals with fundamental structural aspects of algebraic and simple groups, Coxeter groups and the related geometries and buildings. All contributing authors are very active researchers in the topics related to the theme of the book. Some of the articles provide the latest developments in the subject; some provide an overview of the current status of some important problems in this area; some survey an area highlighting the current developments; and some provide an exposition of an area to collect problems and conjectures. It is hoped that these articles would be helpful to a beginner to start independent research on any of these topics, as well as to an expert to know some of the latest developments or to consider some problems for investigation.
Author : Aart Blokhuis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1461302838
When? These are the proceedings of Finite Geometries, the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference, which took place from Sunday 16 to Friday 21 July, 2000. It was organised by the editors of this volume. The Third Conference in 1990 was published as Advances in Finite Geometries and Designs by Oxford University Press and the Second Conference in 1980 was published as Finite Geometries and Designs by Cambridge University Press. The main speakers were A. R. Calderbank, P. J. Cameron, C. E. Praeger, B. Schmidt, H. Van Maldeghem. There were 64 participants and 42 contributions, all listed at the end of the volume. Conference web site http://www. maths. susx. ac. uk/Staff/JWPH/ Why? This collection of 21 articles describes the latest research and current state of the art in the following inter-linked areas: • combinatorial structures in finite projective and affine spaces, also known as Galois geometries, in which combinatorial objects such as blocking sets, spreads and partial spreads, ovoids, arcs and caps, as well as curves and hypersurfaces, are all of interest; • geometric and algebraic coding theory; • finite groups and incidence geometries, as in polar spaces, gener alized polygons and diagram geometries; • algebraic and geometric design theory, in particular designs which have interesting symmetric properties and difference sets, which play an important role, because of their close connections to both Galois geometry and coding theory.
Author : Dieter Jungnickel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461313953
Designs and Finite Geometries brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this important area of mathematics. Designs and Finite Geometries serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most important research issues in the field.
Author : Stanley E. Payne
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783037190661
Generalized quadrangles (GQ) were formally introduced by J. Tits in 1959 to describe geometric properties of simple groups of Lie type of rank 2. The first edition of Finite Generalized Quadrangles (FGQ) quickly became the standard reference for finite GQ. The second edition is essentially a reprint of the first edition. It is a careful rendering into LaTeX of the original, along with an appendix that brings to the attention of the reader those major new results pertaining to GQ, especially in those areas where the authors of this work have made a contribution. The first edition has been out of print for many years. The new edition makes available again this classical reference in the rapidly increasing field of finite geometries.
Author : Koen Thas
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Abelian p-groups
ISBN : 9783037191101
The notion of elation generalized quadrangle is a natural generalization to the theory of generalized quadrangles of the important notion of translation planes in the theory of projective planes. Almost any known class of finite generalized quadrangles can be constructed from a suitable class of elation quadrangles. In this book the author considers several aspects of the theory of elation generalized quadrangles. Special attention is given to local Moufang conditions on the foundational level, exploring, for instance, Knarr's question from the 1990s concerning the very notion of elation quadrangles. All the known results on Kantor's prime power conjecture for finite elation quadrangles are gathered, some of them published here for the first time. The structural theory of elation quadrangles and their groups is heavily emphasized. Other related topics, such as $p$-modular cohomology, Heisenberg groups, and existence problems for certain translation nets, are briefly touched. This book starts from scratch and is essentially self-contained. Many alternative proofs are given for known theorems. This course contains dozens of exercises at various levels, from very easy to rather difficult, and will stimulate undergraduate and graduate students to enter the fascinating and rich world of elation quadrangles. More accomplished mathematicians will find the final chapters especially challenging.
Author : Simeon Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1107107997
A graduate-level introduction to finite geometry and its applications to other areas of combinatorics.
Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1420011146
The Handbook of Finite Translation Planes provides a comprehensive listing of all translation planes derived from a fundamental construction technique, an explanation of the classes of translation planes using both descriptions and construction methods, and thorough sketches of the major relevant theorems. From the methods of Andre to coordi
Author : Norman Johnson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1997-05-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780824700355
Based on the proceedings of the conference held at the University of Iowa, in honour and celebration of the mathematician T.G. Ostrom's 80th birthday, this text focuses on finite geometries as well as topological geometries in the infinite case, some of which originate with ideas of finite geometric objects. It includes information about flocks of quadratic cones and related geometric and combinatorial structures.
