Horospherical limit points of \(S\)-arithmetic groups. (Q2512546)

The paper generalizes a theorem of \textit{G. Avramidi} and \textit{D. W. Morris} [New York J. Math. 20, 353-366 (2014; Zbl 1314.53091)] that characterizes the horospherical limit points for the action of an arithmetic group on its associated symmetric space to \(S\)-arithmetic subgroups of a connected, semisimple algebraic group \(G\) over a global field \(Q\) of any characteristic. Such an \(S\)-arithmetic subgroup \(\Gamma\) acts by isometries on a \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) metric space \(X_S=\prod_{v\in S}X_v\), where each \(X_v\) is either a Euclidean building or a Riemannian symmetric space. The authors show that for a point \(\xi\) on the visual boundary of \(X_S\) there exists a horoball based at \(\xi\) that is disjoint from some \(\Gamma\)-orbit in \(X_S\) if and only if \(\xi\) lies on the boundary of a \textit{\(Q\)-good flat} in \(X_S\). The notion of \(Q\)-good flats introduced in the paper is a natural generalization of \(\mathbb Q\)-split flats which play the same role for the arithmetic groups in characteristic \(0\). The proofs are adaptations of the arguments in the paper of Avramidi and Morris.