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We prove the strong reality of an infinite series of groups and some elements of a special form in the simple real groups.
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Original Russian Text Copyright © 2010 Gal’t A. A.
The author was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 10-01-00391), the State Maintenance Program for the Leading Scientific Schools of the Russian Federation (Grant NSh-344.2008.1), and the Russian Federal Agency for Education (Grant 2.1.1.419).
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Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 241–248, March–April, 2010.
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Gal’t, A.A. Strongly real elements in finite simple orthogonal groups. Sib Math J 51, 193–198 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-010-0020-9
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