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Characterizations of the Suzuki tower near polygons
In recent work, we constructed a new near octagon from certain
involutions of the finite simple group and showed a correspondence
between the Suzuki tower of finite simple groups, , and the tower of near polygons, . Here we characterize
each of these near polygons (except for the first one) as the unique near
polygon of the given order and diameter containing an isometrically embedded
copy of the previous near polygon of the tower. In particular, our
characterization of the Hall-Janko near octagon is similar to an
earlier characterization due to Cohen and Tits who proved that it is the unique
regular near octagon with parameters , but instead of regularity
we assume existence of an isometrically embedded dual split Cayley hexagon,
. We also give a complete classification of near hexagons of
order and use it to prove the uniqueness result for .Comment: 20 pages; some revisions based on referee reports; added more
references; added remarks 1.4 and 1.5; corrected typos; improved the overall
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Zoology of Atlas-groups: dessins d'enfants, finite geometries and quantum commutation
Every finite simple group P can be generated by two of its elements. Pairs of
generators for P are available in the Atlas of finite group representations as
(not neccessarily minimal) permutation representations P. It is unusual but
significant to recognize that a P is a Grothendieck's dessin d'enfant D and
that most standard graphs and finite geometries G-such as near polygons and
their generalizations-are stabilized by a D. In our paper, tripods P -- D -- G
of rank larger than two, corresponding to simple groups, are organized into
classes, e.g. symplectic, unitary, sporadic, etc (as in the Atlas). An
exhaustive search and characterization of non-trivial point-line configurations
defined from small index representations of simple groups is performed, with
the goal to recognize their quantum physical significance. All the defined
geometries G' s have a contextuality parameter close to its maximal value 1.Comment: 19 page
On generalized hexagons of order (3, t) and (4, t) containing a subhexagon
We prove that there are no semi-finite generalized hexagons with
points on each line containing the known generalized hexagons of order as
full subgeometries when is equal to or , thus contributing to the
existence problem of semi-finite generalized polygons posed by Tits. The case
when is equal to was treated by us in an earlier work, for which we
give an alternate proof. For the split Cayley hexagon of order we obtain
the stronger result that it cannot be contained as a proper full subgeometry in
any generalized hexagon.Comment: 13 pages, minor revisions based on referee reports, to appear in
European Journal of Combinatoric
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