Metasymplectic space
In mathematics, a metasymplectic space, introduced by Freudenthal (
Tits building of type F4 (a specific generalized incidence structure
).
The four types of vertices are called points, lines, planes, and symplecta.
References
- Freudenthal, Hans (1959), "Beziehungen der E7 und E8 zur Oktavenebene. VIII-IX.", Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Proceedings. Series A. (in German), 62: 447–465
- Tits, Jacques (1974), Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 386, Berlin, New York: MR 0470099