The object of size 21
The object of size 21, stabilizer , one class of 21 subgroups · rigid
Stabilizer , rigid: the flags of the Fano plane, the involutions of the group, and the centres of involutions in Klein’s plane.
Its incarnations
The seam table names the object in each of the five theories that meet the group. Every entry there is built.
- Fano plane
- flags; quadrangles with an undirected 4-cycle
- Projective line
- bisections in the orbit of ; three orbits of perfect matchings
- The group
- involutions; subgroups , ,
- Klein quartic
- centres; axes
- Graphs
- Heawood edges
The stabilizer is its own normalizer, so between any two incarnations there is exactly one seam, and the seams agree.
The fifteen objects
is self-normalizing, so the object is rigid. In Klein’s plane the stabilizer of the centre of an involution is its centralizer, a dihedral group of order 8, and each centre lies on exactly four bitangents.
The flags of the Fano plane, and its quadrangles with an undirected 4-cycle; the bisections of in the orbit of , and three orbits of perfect matchings; the involutions, and the subgroups , and ; the centres and the axes of involutions in Klein’s plane; the edges of the Heawood graph; the 8-cycles of the Heawood and Coxeter graphs; and the edges of the link of a vertex of the building of .
An undirected 4-cycle on a quadrangle has its two diagonals in one parallel class of the affine plane, which is a point of the complementary line: undirected 4-cycles are flags, a seam that holds for every marking.
In Thurston’s congruence link complement it is the bisections of the cusps into two sets of four that span no tetrahedron, and in the Fano plane of the cells the flags. In Klein’s lattice the 21 pairs of vectors of norm 2 reduce at the prime 2 to the flags, the triangles of the building at a vertex; at to the 21 points inside the conic of the sky; and in Klein’s plane to the centres of the 21 involutions .
At Klein’s lattice each flag is a vector of norm 2, with an axis of the cube at the neighbour , and its involution is the half-turn about that axis; modulo it is the transvection with centre and axis .
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