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In the paper, we prove that every automorphism of any adjoint Chevalley group of type B 2 or G 2 is standard, i.e., it is a composition of an “inner” automorphism, a ring automorphism, and a central automorphism.
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Translated from Fundamentalnaya i Prikladnaya Matematika, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 3–29, 2007.
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Bunina, E.I. Automorphisms of Chevalley groups of types B 2 and G 2 over local rings. J Math Sci 155, 795–814 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-008-9242-9
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