Compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of PGL by lattices of smaller rank. (Q5947938)

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 \(X\).