Rank-one isometries of buildings and quasi-morphisms of Kac-Moody groups.

DOI10.1007/s00039-009-0042-2zbMath1206.20046arXiv0809.0470OpenAlexW2037253986MaRDI QIDQ2269894

Koji Fujiwara, Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace

Publication date: 12 March 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0470

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsKac-Moody groupsrank one isometriesquasi-morphismscommutator lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups (20E32) Geometric group theory (20F65) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42)

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