Exterior-square realization of PSL4 over F2

ID: exterior-square-realization-of-psl4-over-f2

On the six-dimensional exterior square of , the Pfaffian is a nonsingular plus-type quadratic form. The action of preserves it and is faithful: fixing every decomposable exterior line fixes every two-space and then every one-space. The even-weight binary subset module on eight letters, modulo the all-one vector, gives another six-dimensional plus-type space with . Coordinate permutations embed faithfully into its orthogonal group. That orthogonal group has order , while has order , identifying its index-two image with the alternating group .

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