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Triple factorisations of the general linear group and their associated geometries

Group Theory 2014-05-22 v1

Abstract

Triple factorisations of finite groups GG of the form G=PQPG=PQP are essential in the study of Lie theory as well as in geometry. Geometrically, each triple factorisation G=PQPG=PQP corresponds to a GG-flag transitive point/line geometry such that `each pair of points is incident with at least one line'. We call such a geometry \emph{collinearly complete}, and duality (interchanging the roles of points and lines) gives rise to the notion of \emph{concurrently complete} geometries. In this paper, we study triple factorisations of the general linear group GL(V)\mathrm{GL}(V) as PQPPQP where the subgroups PP and QQ either fix a subspace or fix a decomposition of VV as V1V2V_1\oplus V_2 with dim(V1)=dim(V2)\dim(V_{1})=\dim(V_{2}).

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@article{arxiv.1405.5276,
  title  = {Triple factorisations of the general linear group and their associated geometries},
  author = {Seyed Hassan Alavi and John Bamberg and Cheryl E. Praeger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5276},
  year   = {2014}
}