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The Benson-Solomon systems comprise the one currently known family of simple saturated fusion systems at the prime two that do not arise as the fusion system of any finite group. We determine the automorphism groups and the possible almost simple extensions of these systems and of their centric linking systems.
To Dave Benson on the occasion of his second 60th birthday
Justin Lynd was partially supported by NSA Young Investigator Grant H98230-14-1-0312. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 707758.
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Henke, E., Lynd, J. (2018). Extensions of the Benson-Solomon Fusion Systems. In: Carlson, J., Iyengar, S., Pevtsova, J. (eds) Geometric and Topological Aspects of the Representation Theory of Finite Groups. PSSW 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94033-5_10
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