The geometry of wreath and semi-direct products

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Auteurs principaux: Piedade, Claudio Alexandre, Tranchida, Philippe
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author Piedade, Claudio Alexandre
Tranchida, Philippe
author_facet Piedade, Claudio Alexandre
Tranchida, Philippe
contents Coset geometries are incidence geometries constructed from a group $G$ and a system of subgroups $(G_i)_{i \in I}$ of subgroups of $G$. For any algebraic group operation, it is then natural to wonder whether it can be extended to the framework of coset geometries. This has been achieved in the case of the halving (\cite{halving}) and in the case of free (amalgamated) products, HNN-extensions, and semi-direct products (\cite{piedade2025group}). In this article, we explore more deeply two operations related to semi-direct products: the twisting and the wreath product. We show that these operations extend to coset geometries in such a way that they preserve key properties, such as flag-transitivity, residual-connectedness and being thin. In particular, we can apply twistings and wreath products to polytopes and hypertopes. Doing so, we show that there exists regular polytopes and hypertopes for almost-simple group with socle a sporadic simple group.
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Piedade, Claudio Alexandre
Tranchida, Philippe
Group Theory
Combinatorics
51E30, 20F55, 20E22, 20D08
Coset geometries are incidence geometries constructed from a group $G$ and a system of subgroups $(G_i)_{i \in I}$ of subgroups of $G$. For any algebraic group operation, it is then natural to wonder whether it can be extended to the framework of coset geometries. This has been achieved in the case of the halving (\cite{halving}) and in the case of free (amalgamated) products, HNN-extensions, and semi-direct products (\cite{piedade2025group}). In this article, we explore more deeply two operations related to semi-direct products: the twisting and the wreath product. We show that these operations extend to coset geometries in such a way that they preserve key properties, such as flag-transitivity, residual-connectedness and being thin. In particular, we can apply twistings and wreath products to polytopes and hypertopes. Doing so, we show that there exists regular polytopes and hypertopes for almost-simple group with socle a sporadic simple group.
title The geometry of wreath and semi-direct products
topic Group Theory
Combinatorics
51E30, 20F55, 20E22, 20D08
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04646