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Weyl groups of small groups of finite Morley rank

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We examine Weyl groups of minimal connected simple groups of finite Morley rank of degenerate type. We show that they are cyclic, and lift isomorphically to subgroups of the ambient group.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, England

    Jeffrey Burdges

  2. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ, 08854-8019, USA

    Adrien Deloro

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Supported by NSF postdoctoral fellowship DMS-0503036.

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Burdges, J., Deloro, A. Weyl groups of small groups of finite Morley rank. Isr. J. Math. 179, 403–423 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-010-0087-9

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