Conjectural uncapped automorphisms in the E8 building over F2
Conjectural uncapped automorphisms in the E8 building over F2
Fix the ordering of the positive roots of according to increasing height, using the natural lexicographic order for roots of the same height. Let denote the corresponding root-group elements in the Chevalley group . An automorphism is uncapped if it maps no chamber to an opposite chamber; its decorated opposition diagram records the types and opposition behavior of its images.
E8(2) uncapped-automorphism conjecture. Let
in . Then and are uncapped, with the respective decorated opposition diagrams displayed in the source.
These are conjectural computational examples for the two diagrams of that the authors could not handle with their computational techniques. They randomly selected chambers and verified the claimed structure on that subset, but a complete verification remains open.
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J. Parkinson and H. Van Maldeghem, “Opposition diagrams for automorphisms of small spherical buildings”, arXiv:1803.09367 (2019).
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