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Suzuki–Tits ovoids through the years

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We review the impact of Jacques Tits’ paper, “Ovoïdes et groupes de Suzuki,” Arch. Math. 13 (1962), 187–198. The paper turned out to be a milestone for both geometry (incidence geometry, finite geometry, Galois geometry) and algebra (group theory).

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Thas, J.A., Van Maldeghem, H. Suzuki–Tits ovoids through the years. Arch. Math. 121, 511–521 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-023-01878-7

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