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GENERALIZATIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY

Part of: Algebraic groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2009

RUPERT MCCALLUM
RUPERT MCCALLUM*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia (email: rupertmccallum@yahoo.com)
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Keywords

classical groupsgeometryBruhat–Tits buildingslinear algebraic groups

MSC classification

Secondary: 14L35: Classical groups (geometric aspects)
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , October 2009 , pp. 350 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2009

Footnotes

Thesis submitted to the University of New South Wales, December 2008. Degree approved, February 2009. Supervisor: Professor Michael Cowling.

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