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In this paper we study the possible orders of a non-abelian representation group of a slim dense near hexagon. We prove that if the representation group R of a slim dense near hexagon S is non-abelian, then R is a 2-group of exponent 4 and |R|=2β, 1+NPdim(S)≤β≤1+dimV(S), where NPdim(S) is the near polygon embedding dimension of S and dimV(S) is the dimension of the universal representation module V(S) of S. Further, if β=1+NPdim(S), then R is necessarily an extraspecial 2-group. In that case, we determine the type of the extraspecial 2-group in each case. We also deduce that the universal representation group of S is a central product of an extraspecial 2-group and an abelian 2-group of exponent at most 4.
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This work was partially done when B.K. Sahoo was a Research Fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Center with NBHM fellowship, DAE Grant 39/3/2000-R&D-II, Govt. of India.
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Sahoo, B.K., Sastry, N.S.N. On the order of a non-abelian representation group of a slim dense near hexagon. J Algebr Comb 29, 195–213 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-008-0129-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-008-0129-0