Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Author: Franz Georg Timmesfeld
Title: Abstract root subgroups and simple groups of Lie-type
Additional book information: Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 2001, xiii + 389 pp., ISBN 3-7643-6532-3, $125.00$

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1.

F. Buekenhout and E. Shult, On the foundations of polar geometry, Geom. Dedicata 3 (1974), 155-170. MR 0350599

2.

A. Cohen and B. N. Cooperstein, A characterization of some geometries of exceptional Lie type, Geom. Dedicata 15 (1983), 73-105. MR 0732544

3.

H. Cuypers and J. I. Hall, The classification of 3-transposition groups with trivial centers, in Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry, Martin Liebeck, ed., London Math. Soc. Lecture Notes 165 (1992), 121-138. MR 1200255

4.

B. Fischer, Finite groups generated by 3-transpositions, I., Inventiones Math 13 (1971), 232-246. MR 0294487

5.

R. Griess, The friendly giant, Inventiones Math 69 (1982). 1-102. MR 0671653

6.

P. Johnson, Polar spaces of arbitrary rank, Geom. Dedicata 35 (1990), 229-250. MR 1066567

7.

J. Tits, Buildings of Spherical Type and Finite BN-Pairs, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 386, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1974. MR 0470099

8.

J. Tits and R. Weiss, Moufang Polygons, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, Berlin, 2002.

9.

O. Veblen and J. W. Young, Projective Geometry, Blaisdell, New York, 1910. MR 0179666; MR 31:3912b

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F. D. Veldkamp, Polar geometry, I-V, Proc. Kon. Akad. Wet A62 (1959), 512-551 and A63, 207-212 (= Indag. Math 21 and 22). MR 0125472