Compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of PGL by lattices of smaller rank. (Q5947938)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1666858
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Compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of PGL by lattices of smaller rank. (English)
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11 December 2001
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Let \(K\) be a non-Archimedean local field and \(V\) be a finite-dimensional vector space over \(K\). It is constructed a compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building \(X\) associated to the group \(\text{PGL}(V)\) by attaching all the Bruhat-Tits buildings of \(\text{PGL}(W)\) for non-trivial subspaces \(W\) of \(V\) as a boundary. Since the vertices of such a building correspond to homothety classes of lattices of full rank in \(W\), one can consider this process as attaching to \(X\) all the lattices in \(V\) of smaller rank. -- This compactification differs from both the Borel-Serre compactification and Landvogt's polyhedral compactification of \(X\).
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Bruhat-Tits buildings
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PGL
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compactifications
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