Theory of Association Schemes

Download or read book Theory of Association Schemes written by Paul-Hermann Zieschang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concept-oriented treatment of the structure theory of association schemes. The generalization of Sylow’s group theoretic theorems to scheme theory arises as a consequence of arithmetical considerations about quotient schemes. The theory of Coxeter schemes (equivalent to the theory of buildings) emerges naturally and yields a purely algebraic proof of Tits’ main theorem on buildings of spherical type.