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FINITE SPECIAL MOUFANG SETS OF EVEN CHARACTERISTIC

TOM DE MEDTS

Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S22, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders (Belgium) (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen).

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YOAV SEGEV

Department of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219199708002855Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We give a short and elementary proof of the fact that a finite special Moufang set with root groups of even order is isomorphic to the unique Moufang set whose little projective group is PSL₂(2^k) for some integer k ≥ 1.

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AMSC: 20E42, 20B20, 20D05

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