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In this paper we prove that there is no biplane admitting a flag-transitive automorphism group of almost simple type, with exceptional socle of Lie type. A biplane is a (v,k,2)-symmetric design, and a flag is an incident point-block pair. A group G is almost simple with socle X if X is the product of all the minimal normal subgroups of G, and X⊴G≤Aut (G).
Throughout this work we use the classification of finite simple groups, as well as results from P.B. Kleidman’s Ph.D. thesis which have not been published elsewhere.
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O’Reilly-Regueiro, E. Biplanes with flag-transitive automorphism groups of almost simple type, with exceptional socle of Lie type. J Algebr Comb 27, 479–491 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-007-0098-8
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