SEMINAR: Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalised n-gons and the Feit-Higman theorem
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalised n-gons and the Feit-Higman theorem |
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Name: Jon Xu (University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia)
will speak on
Generalised n-gons and the Feit-Higman theorem
at 3pm on Friday 8th of March.
Abstract:
Jacques Tits' theory of buildings played a vital role in the proof of the classification theorem on finite simple groups. The class of rank 2 buildings are also known as generalised n-gons.
In my talk, generalised n-gons will be defined as a certain class of bipartite graphs, so as to skip the (rather abstruse) building-theoretic definition. I will also state and outline a proof of the Feit-Higman theorem, which states that the majority of generalised n-gons can only exist for certain n. The proof, due to Kilmoyer and Solomon (1973), weaves together representation theory and graph theory.
To finish off, I will talk a little about what I've been doing here at UWA.
Speaker(s) |
Jon Xu
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Location |
MLR2
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Contact |
Irene Pivotto
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:00
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End |
Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:00
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Submitted by |
Irene Pivotto <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:42
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