The natural embedding of the Ree-Tits Octagon

Sebastian Petit; Hendrik Van Maldeghem

The natural embedding of the Ree-Tits Octagon

Combinatorics 2026-07-20 v1

Authors: Sebastian Petit , Hendrik Van Maldeghem

Abstract

In this paper, we study and characterise the natural embedding of the Ree-Tits octagons. Keywords: Ree-Tits Octagon, Metasymplectic space, generalised octagon, generalised polygon

Keywords

Ree-Tits octagon metasymplectic space generalized octagon generalized polygon natural embedding

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.18560,
  title  = {The natural embedding of the Ree-Tits Octagon},
  author = {Sebastian Petit and Hendrik Van Maldeghem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18560},
  year   = {2026}
}