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A construction of an automorphism of the geometry of the group B2(2n) is given as an extension of an automorphism of a root system. Some properties of the automorphism are proved.
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Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 1530–1534, November, 1992.
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Peikre, L.R. An automorphism of the geometry of the group B2(2n) as a polynomial map. Ukr Math J 44, 1406–1410 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01071516
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01071516