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Opposition diagrams for automorphisms of small spherical buildings
An automorphism of a spherical building is called
\textit{capped} if it satisfies the following property: if there exist both
type and simplices of mapped onto opposite simplices by
then there exists a type simplex of mapped onto
an opposite simplex by . In previous work we showed that if is
a thick irreducible spherical building of rank at least with no Fano plane
residues then every automorphism of is capped. In the present work we
consider the spherical buildings with Fano plane residues (the \textit{small
buildings}). We show that uncapped automorphisms exist in these buildings and
develop an enhanced notion of "opposition diagrams" to capture the structure of
these automorphisms. Moreover we provide applications to the theory of
"domesticity" in spherical buildings, including the complete classification of
domestic automorphisms of small buildings of types and
Opposition diagrams for automorphisms of large spherical buildings
Let be an automorphism of a thick irreducible spherical building
of rank at least with no Fano plane residues. We prove that if
there exist both type and simplices of mapped onto
opposite simplices by , then there exists a type simplex
of mapped onto an opposite simplex by . This property is
called "cappedness". We give applications of cappedness to opposition diagrams,
domesticity, and the calculation of displacement in spherical buildings. In a
companion piece to this paper we study the thick irreducible spherical
buildings containing Fano plane residues. In these buildings automorphisms are
not necessarily capped
Confluence Graphs of Unitals
We show that the cliques of maximal size in the confluence graph of an
arbitrary unital of order have size , and that these cliques are the
pencils of all blocks through a given point. This solves the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado
problem for all unitals. We also determine all maximal cliques of the
confluence graph of the Hermitian unitals. As an application, we show that the
confluence graph of an arbitrary unital unambiguously determines the unital.
Along the way, we show that each linear space with points such that the
sizes of both point rows and line pencils are bounded above by embeds in
a projective plane of order
Veronesean representations of projective spaces over quadratic associative division algebras
A
Projective Ring Line Encompassing Two-Qubits
The projective line over the (non-commutative) ring of two-by-two matrices
with coefficients in GF(2) is found to fully accommodate the algebra of 15
operators - generalized Pauli matrices - characterizing two-qubit systems. The
relevant sub-configuration consists of 15 points each of which is either
simultaneously distant or simultaneously neighbor to (any) two given distant
points of the line. The operators can be identified with the points in such a
one-to-one manner that their commutation relations are exactly reproduced by
the underlying geometry of the points, with the ring geometrical notions of
neighbor/distant answering, respectively, to the operational ones of
commuting/non-commuting. This remarkable configuration can be viewed in two
principally different ways accounting, respectively, for the basic 9+6 and 10+5
factorizations of the algebra of the observables. First, as a disjoint union of
the projective line over GF(2) x GF(2) (the "Mermin" part) and two lines over
GF(4) passing through the two selected points, the latter omitted. Second, as
the generalized quadrangle of order two, with its ovoids and/or spreads
standing for (maximum) sets of five mutually non-commuting operators and/or
groups of five maximally commuting subsets of three operators each. These
findings open up rather unexpected vistas for an algebraic geometrical
modelling of finite-dimensional quantum systems and give their numerous
applications a wholly new perspective.Comment: 8 pages, three tables; Version 2 - a few typos and one discrepancy
corrected; Version 3: substantial extension of the paper - two-qubits are
generalized quadrangles of order two; Version 4: self-dual picture completed;
Version 5: intriguing triality found -- three kinds of geometric hyperplanes
within GQ and three distinguished subsets of Pauli operator
Detailed α-decay study of 180Tl
International audienceA detailed -decay spectroscopy study of has been performed at ISOLDE (CERN). -selective ionization by the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) coupled to mass separation provided a high-purity beam of . Fine-structure decays to excited levels in the daughter were identified and an -decay scheme of was constructed based on an analysis of - and -- coincidences. Multipolarities of several -ray transitions deexciting levels in were determined. Based on the analysis of reduced -decay widths, it was found that all decays are hindered, which signifies a change of configuration between the parent and all daughter states
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