On closed subsets of non-commutative association schemes of rank 6
Abstract
Description
The notion of an association scheme is a generalization of the concept of a group.
In fact, the so-called thin association schemes correspond in a well-understood way
to groups. In this thesis, we look at the structure of non-commutative association
schemes of rank 6. We will show that a non-normal closed subset of a noncommutative
association scheme of rank 6, must have rank 2. The so-called Coxeter
schemes of rank 6 which we present in Section 4 provide examples of association
schemes of rank 6 with non-normal closed subsets of rank 2.
It is shown that normal closed subsets of imprimitive non-commutative schemes of
rank 6 must have rank 2 or 3, so we will also look at the structure of association
schemes of rank 6, with symmetric normal closed subsets of rank 3, and the structure
of association schemes of rank 6 when they have non-symmetric closed subsets of
rank 3. We will additionally see how to construct an association scheme of rank 6
with non-symmetric normal closed subsets.
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