© 2001 by London Mathematical Society
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Special Linear Groups Generated by Transvections and Embedded Projective Spaces
Department of Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; hansc{at}win.tue.nl
Mathematisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Arndtstraße 2, D 35392 Gießen, Germany, anja.steinbach{at}math.uni-giessen.de
Received 7 April 2000. Revision received 14 March 2001.
A characterization is given of the special linear groups T(
, W) as linear groups generated by a non-degenerate class
of abstract root groups such that the elements of A
are transvections.