Let 1 be a thick finite generalized hexagon and let G be a group of automorphisms of 1. If G acts transitively on the set of non-degenerate ordered heptagons, then 1 is one of the Moufang hexagons H(q) or 3 H(q) associated to the Chevalley groups G 2 (q) or 3 D 4 (q) respectively, or their duals; an
A Combinatorial Characterization of Some Finite Classical Generalized Hexagons
β Scribed by E Govaert
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 280 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0097-3165
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β¦ Synopsis
We characterize the Moufang hexagons in characteristic 2 by requiring that certain sets of points (defined by distances from other objects) are nonempty. Together with a known result for quadrangles, we obtain a common combinatorial characterization of the symplectic quadrangles over an arbitrary finite field and the classical hexagons over a field of characteristic 2 amongst all finite generalized polygons.
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