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Tag Archives: triality
Synchronization and all that, 2
The story I told in the last post is not over. The recent development is that we spotted a mistake in the paper. An easy mistake to make: we had simply used the symbol n in two different places with … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged association scheme, large sets, ovoid, Philippe Delsarte, quadric, spread, Steiner systems, synchronization, triality
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Road closures and idempotent-generated semigroups
The University of St Andrews is installing a biomass boiler, to provide hot water to heat University buildings, on the old paper mill site at Guardbridge. The water has to be piped four miles to St Andrews, and this big … Continue reading
Antiflag-transitive groups
More than 35 years ago, Bill Kantor and I published a paper classifying the finite antiflag-transitive collineation groups of classical projective and polar spaces. This was before the Classification of Finite Simple Groups had been announced, although it was already … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrzej Orchel, Bill Kantor, doubly transitive collineation groups, Marshall Hall, polar spaces, triality
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