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arxiv: 1405.5276 · v1 · pith:HCEXLW7Tnew · submitted 2014-05-21 · 🧮 math.GR

Triple factorisations of the general linear group and their associated geometries

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Triple factorisations of finite groups $G$ of the form $G=PQP$ are essential in the study of Lie theory as well as in geometry. Geometrically, each triple factorisation $G=PQP$ corresponds to a $G$-flag transitive point/line geometry such that `each pair of points is incident with at least one line'. We call such a geometry \emph{collinearly complete}, and duality (interchanging the roles of points and lines) gives rise to the notion of \emph{concurrently complete} geometries. In this paper, we study triple factorisations of the general linear group $\mathrm{GL}(V)$ as $PQP$ where the subgroups $P$ and $Q$ either fix a subspace or fix a decomposition of $V$ as $V_1\oplus V_2$ with $\dim(V_{1})=\dim(V_{2})$.

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