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Leemans, Dimitri

String C-group representations of almost simple groups: a survey. (English) Zbl 1534.20016

Cunningham, Gabriel (ed.) et al., Polytopes and discrete geometry. AMS special session, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, April 21–22, 2018. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). Contemp. Math. 764, 157-178 (2021).
Summary: This survey paper aims at giving the state of the art in the study of string C-group representations of almost simple groups. It also suggest a series of problems and conjectures to the interested reader.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1467.52001].

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MSC:

20D06 Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type
52B11 \(n\)-dimensional polytopes

Keywords:

string C-group representations; abstract regular polytopes; simple groups

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Magma
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