Configurations of lines and models of Lie algebras

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2005-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/math/0507118v1

Journal of Algebra 304, 1 (2006) 457-486

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

31 pages

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The automorphism groups of the 27 lines on the smooth cubic surface or the 28 bitangents to the general quartic plane curve are well-known to be closely related to the Weyl groups of $E\_6$ and $E\_7$. We show how classical subconfigurations of lines, such as double-sixes, triple systems or Steiner sets, are easily constructed from certain models of the exceptional Lie algebras. For ${\mathfrak e}\_7$ and ${\mathfrak e}\_8$ we are lead to beautiful models graded over the octonions, which display these algebras as plane projective geometries of subalgebras. We also interpret the group of the bitangents as a group of transformations of the triangles in the Fano plane, and show how this allows to realize the isomorphism $PSL(3,F\_2)\simeq PSL(2,F\_7)$ in terms of harmonic cubes.

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