Jacques Tits (French: [ʒak tits]) (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence...
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In group theory, the Tits group 2F4(2)′, named for Jacques Tits (French: [tits]), is a finite simple group of order 211 · 33 · 52 · 13 = 17,971,200...
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Look up tit or tits in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TIT, Tit, Tits, or tit may refer to: Tit (bird) or Paridae, a large family of passerine birds Penduline...
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Building (mathematics) (redirect from Bruhat-Tits building)
of a building was invented by Jacques Tits as a means of describing simple algebraic groups over an arbitrary field. Tits demonstrated how to every such...
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In mathematics, the Tits alternative, named after Jacques Tits, is an important theorem about the structure of finitely generated linear groups. The theorem...
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mathematics, a generalized polygon is an incidence structure introduced by Jacques Tits in 1959. Generalized n-gons encompass as special cases projective planes...
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Artin–Tits group is a group that admits an Artin–Tits presentation. Likewise, an Artin–Tits monoid is a monoid that, as a monoid, admits an Artin–Tits presentation...
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(B, N) pair (redirect from Tits system)
field. They were introduced by the mathematician Jacques Tits, and are also sometimes known as Tits systems. A (B, N) pair is a pair of subgroups B and...
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Freudenthal magic square (redirect from Freudenthal–Tits magic square)
Freudenthal–Tits magic square) is a construction relating several Lie algebras (and their associated Lie groups). It is named after Hans Freudenthal and Jacques Tits...
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the Tits metric is a metric defined on the ideal boundary of an Hadamard space (also called a complete CAT(0) space). It is named after Jacques Tits. Let...
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