CHAPTER 12

Point-Line Spaces Related to Buildings

Arjeh M. COHEN

Fac. Wisk. en Inf., Technical University Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Contents

Introduction

1. Standard notions for spaces

2. Embeddings in projective spaces

3. Polar spaces

4. Shadow spaces of buildings

5. Models

6. Characterisations

7. Related structures

References