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词条 Buekenhout geometry
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  1. Definition

  2. Diagrams

  3. References

  4. External links

In mathematics, a Buekenhout geometry or diagram geometry is a generalization of projective spaces, Tits buildings, and several other geometric structures, introduced by {{harvtxt|Buekenhout|1979}}.

Definition

A Buekenhout geometry consists of a set X whose elements are called "varieties", with a symmetric reflexive relation on X called "incidence", together with a function τ called the "type map" from X to a set Δ whose elements are called "types" and whose size is called the "rank". Two distinct varieties of the same type cannot be incident.

A flag is a subset of X such that any two elements of the flag are incident.

The Buekenhout geometry has to satisfy the following axiom:

  • Every flag is contained in a flag with exactly one variety of each type.

Example: X is the linear subspaces of a projective space with two subspaces incident if one is contained in the other, Δ is the set of possible dimensions of linear subspaces, and the type map takes a linear subspace to its dimension. A flag in this case is a chain of subspaces, and each flag is contained in a so-called complete flag.

If F is a flag, the residue of F consists of all elements of X that are not in F but are incident with all elements of F. The residue of a flag forms a Buekenhout geometry in the obvious way, whose type are the types of X that are not types of F. A geometry is said to have some property residually if every residue of rank at least 2 has the property. In particular a geometry is called residually connected if every residue of rank at least 2 is connected (for the incidence relation).

Diagrams

The diagram of a Buekenhout geometry has a point for each type, and two points x, y are connected with a line labeled to indicate what sort of geometry the rank 2 residues of type {x,y} have as follows.

  • If the rank 2 residue is a digon, meaning any variety of type x is incident with every variety of type y, then the line from x to y is omitted. (This is the most common case.)
  • If the rank 2 residue is a projective plane, then the line from x to y is not labelled. This is the next most common case.
  • If the rank 2 residue is a more complicated geometry, the line is labelled by some symbol, which tends to vary from author to author.

References

  • {{Citation | last1=Buekenhout | first1=Francis |authorlink=Francis Buekenhout| title=Diagrams for geometries and groups | doi=10.1016/0097-3165(79)90041-4 | mr=542524 | year=1979 | journal=Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A | issn=1096-0899 | volume=27 | issue=2 | pages=121–151}}
  • {{Citation | editor1-last=Buekenhout | editor1-first=F. |editorlink=Francis Buekenhout| title=Handbook of incidence geometry | publisher=North-Holland | location=Amsterdam | isbn=978-0-444-88355-1 | mr=1360715 | year=1995}}
  • {{Citation | last1=Cameron | first1=Peter J. | title=Projective and polar spaces | url=http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~pjc/pps/ | publisher=Queen Mary and Westfield College School of Mathematical Sciences | location=London | series=QMW Maths Notes | mr=1153019 | year=1991 | volume=13}}
  • {{Citation | last1=Pasini | first1=Antonio | title=Diagram Geometries | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | series=Oxford Science Publications | year=1994 | mr=1318911 }}
  • {{eom|id=D/d110170|first=Antonio|last= Pasini|title=Diagram geometry}}

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