Buildings and shadows

DOI10.1007/BF02189594MaRDI QIDQ788114zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Betty Salzberg

Publication date 1982

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/136943

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsDynkin-diagramgeometries of exceptional groupsshadowssimle Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Other finite incidence structures (geometric aspects) (51E30)

Review text

This expository paper describes the geometries associated to simle Lie groups, following J. Tits' theory of buildings and shadows. First the definitions of building, apartment, Dynkin-diagram are given and motivated. Then the author describes the buildings and the associated geometries for the classical groups and for \(G_ 2\). In the last two chapters shadows are defined in order to investigate the geometries of the exceptional groups. The shadow geometry for \(E_ 8\) is explicitly derived.

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