Compact totally disconnected Moufang buildings.

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1347369367MaRDI QIDQ1762344zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Theo Grundhöfer, Richard M. Weiss, Linus Kramer, Hendrik Van Maldeghem

Publication date 23 November 2012

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.5134, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1347369367

compact buildings locally compact groups Moufang buildings spherical buildings symmetric spaces topological buildings

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Topological geometries on manifolds (51H20) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: Let

D e l t a

be a spherical building each of whose irreducible components is infinite, has rank at least 2 and satisfies the Moufang condition. We show that

D e l t a

can be given the structure of a topological building that is compact and totally disconnected precisely when

D e l t a

is the building at infinity of a locally finite affine building.

Review text

By the work of \textit{J. Tits}, [Buildings of spherical types and finite \(BN\)-pairs. Lect. Notes Math. 386. Springer-Verlag (1974; Zbl 0295.20047)], it is possible to classify all spherical buildings of rank \(>3\), and all spherical buildings of rank \(2\) with the Moufang condition. However, many interesting examples of spherical buildings appear with an additional feature: they are topological buildings. For example, the boundary at infinity of a symmetric space, or a Euclidean building, is a topological spherical building. Furthermore, assuming the space is locally compact, this building will be compact. Therefore, one can wonder which spherical buildings admit a compact topology. Several authors worked on this problem in special cases, mostly when the building is connected or locally connected: see for example \textit{K.~Burns} and \textit{R.~Spatzier} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 65, 5-34 (1987; Zbl 0643.53036)], and \textit{T. Grundhöfer}, \textit{N. Knarr} and \textit{L. Kramer} [Geom. Dedicata 83, No. 1-3, 1-29 (2000; Zbl 0974.51014)]. The paper under review extends these results to the general case. The authors prove that a compact infinite irreducible spherical building \(\Delta\) which is Moufang is always the boundary of a symmetric space or of a Bruhat-Tits building. Furthermore, the topology of \(\Delta\) is unique (meaning that every automorphism is continuous), except maybe for the conjugation in complex symmetric spaces.

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