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A characterisation of the moebius and similarity groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

P. J. Lorimer
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Let PGL(2, F) denote the group of all Moebius transformations over a field F. In a recent paper [2], the author has given a characterisation of the groups PGL(2, F), F finite, char F ≠ 2. It is the purpose of this paper to give a similar characterisation of the group PGL (2, F), char F = 2, F finite or infinite.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1965

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