%0 Journal Article %T The centralizers in the root group of a special Moufang set are abelian %A Yoav Segev %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X In this note we prove that if $\mathbb{M}(U,\tau)$ is a special Moufang set and $a\in U^*$, then C_U(a) is abelian. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2572v2