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Finite Simple Groups, Geometries, Buildings, and Related Topics, Conference in Honor of Ernest Shult
March 22-24, 2001
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA

Organizers
Michael Aschbacher, Andrew Chermak, Zongzhu Lin, Bernd Stellmacher

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Embeddings of dual polar spaces: a survey
by
Bruce N. Cooperstein
University of California, Santa Cruz

Dual polar spaces are near polygons, a concept introduced by Ernie Shult. An embedding of a point-line geometry is an injective map which take the points of the geometry to a subset of the point of some projective space and the lines to a collection of full projective lines. Embeddings of Lie Incidence geometries have been extensively investigated by Ernie Shult. We now know the absolutely universal embeddings of all dual polar spaces and this talk will report on that classification.

Date received: February 20, 2001

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