• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.173-205
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• 2021

The spherical buildings associated with absolutely simple algebraic groups of relative rank 2 are all Moufang polygons. Tits polygons are a more general class of geometric structures that includes Moufang polygons as a special case. Dagger-sharp Tits n-gons exist only for n = 3, 4, 6 and 8. Moufang octagons were classified by Tits. We show here that there are no dagger-sharp Tits octagons that are not Moufang. As part of the proof it is shown that the same conclusion holds for a certain class of dagger-sharp Tits quadrangles.