3-spherical Curtis-Tits groups

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• Rieuwert Blok, University of Birmingham
• Wednesday 01 February 2017, 16:00-17:00
• Watson Building, Lecture Room A.

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Curtis-Tits groups are groups defined as non-trivial completions of Curtis-Tits amalgams. Via the Curtis-Tits theorem they generalize groups of Lie type and groups of Kac-Moody type. We’ll describe all Curtis-Tits groups with 3-spherical diagram and explore some geometric and algebraic properties.

This talk is part of the Algebra seminar series.

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