Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Galois groups through invariant relations
- Construction of Co3. An example of the use of an integrated system for computational group theory
- Embedding some recursively presented groups
- The Dedekind-Frobenius group determinant: new life in an old problem
- Group characters and π-sharpness
- Permutation group algorithms via black box recognition algorithms
- Nonabelian tensor products of groups: the commutator connection
- Simple subalgebras of generalized Witt algebras of characteristic zero
- Applications of the Baker-Hausdorff formula in the theory of finite p-groups
- Generalizations of the restricted Burnside problem for groups with automorphisms
- The ∑m-conjecture for a class of metabelian groups
- Rings with periodic groups of units II
- Some free-by-cyclic groups
- The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Suzuki simple group Sz(8)
- Semigroup identities and Engel groups
- Groups whose elements have given orders
- The Burnside groups and small cancellation theory
- Solvable Engel groups with nilpotent normal closures
- Nilpotent injectors in finite groups
- Some groups with right Engel elements
- The growth of finite subgroups in p-groups
- Symplectic amalgams and extremal subgroups
- Primitive prime divisor elements in finite classical groups
- On the classification of generalized Hamiltonian groups
- Permutability properties of subgroups
- When Schreier transversals grow wild
- Probabilistic group theory
- Combinatorial methods: from groups to polynomial algebras
- Formal languages and the word problem for groups
- Periodic cohomology and free and proper actions on ℝn × Sm
- On modules over group rings of soluble groups of finite rank
- On some series of normal subgroups of the Gupta-Sidki 3-group
The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Suzuki simple group Sz(8)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Galois groups through invariant relations
- Construction of Co3. An example of the use of an integrated system for computational group theory
- Embedding some recursively presented groups
- The Dedekind-Frobenius group determinant: new life in an old problem
- Group characters and π-sharpness
- Permutation group algorithms via black box recognition algorithms
- Nonabelian tensor products of groups: the commutator connection
- Simple subalgebras of generalized Witt algebras of characteristic zero
- Applications of the Baker-Hausdorff formula in the theory of finite p-groups
- Generalizations of the restricted Burnside problem for groups with automorphisms
- The ∑m-conjecture for a class of metabelian groups
- Rings with periodic groups of units II
- Some free-by-cyclic groups
- The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Suzuki simple group Sz(8)
- Semigroup identities and Engel groups
- Groups whose elements have given orders
- The Burnside groups and small cancellation theory
- Solvable Engel groups with nilpotent normal closures
- Nilpotent injectors in finite groups
- Some groups with right Engel elements
- The growth of finite subgroups in p-groups
- Symplectic amalgams and extremal subgroups
- Primitive prime divisor elements in finite classical groups
- On the classification of generalized Hamiltonian groups
- Permutability properties of subgroups
- When Schreier transversals grow wild
- Probabilistic group theory
- Combinatorial methods: from groups to polynomial algebras
- Formal languages and the word problem for groups
- Periodic cohomology and free and proper actions on ℝn × Sm
- On modules over group rings of soluble groups of finite rank
- On some series of normal subgroups of the Gupta-Sidki 3-group
Summary
Abstract
We determine all firm and residually connected geometries on which the group Sz(8) acts flag-transitively and fulfills the primitivity condition RWPRI, requiring that the stabilizer of each flag F acts primitively on the elements of some type in the residue ГF. This work was the starting point of a more ambitious work: the classification of all geometries of a Suzuki simple group Sz(q). The case q = 8 which is solved here, is the smallest case and the only one that is currently possible to analyse completely using the computer algebra package Magma. The rank 2 case was classified for all q (see Theorem 7.1 in [17]). The results obtained here rely partially on computer algebra.
Introduction
The present paper gives a complete classification of the firm and residually connected geometries on which the group Sz(8) acts flag-transitively and residually weakly primitively (see Section 2 for the definitions).
This work continues a systematic investigation of groups that has started some years ago (see [6, 8, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]).
Here we study the smallest Suzuki simple group, namely Sz(8). One of the reasons for this choice is that the infinite class of Suzuki groups Sz(q), with q = 22e+1 and e ≥ 1, looks particularly attractive for a general study and that a previous treatment of the smallest case may help in guessing the way to follow in general.
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- Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath , pp. 517 - 526Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999
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