Points and Lines Characterizing the Classical Geometries /

• Main Author: Shult, Ernest (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Universitext
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Geometry.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.

The classical geometries of points and lines include not only the projective and polar spaces, but similar truncations of geometries naturally arising from the groups of Lie type. Virtually all of these geometries (or homomorphic images of them) are characterized in this book by simple local axioms...