Examples of buildings constructed via covering spaces

DOI10.4171/GGD/57MaRDI QIDQ1016449zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael W. Davis

Publication date 5 May 2009

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5097, http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?issn=1661-7207&vol=3&iss=2&rank=4

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupCoxeter systemhyperbolic buildinguniform latticeuniversal cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Covering space theory is used to construct new examples of buildings.

Review text

Let \((W',S)\) be a Coxeter system and \(C'\) be a building of type \((W',S)\). Change some of the entries in the corresponding Coxeter matrix to \(\infty\) to obtain a new Coxeter system \((W,S)\); compare the author [Duke Math. J. 55, 105--139 (1987; Zbl 0631.57019)]. The author constructs a new building \(C\) of type \((W,S)\), which is realized by the universal cover of the geometric realization of the poset of spherical residues of \(C'\). This yields many new examples of buildings, in particular new examples of 3-dimensional hyperbolic buildings. If \(C'\) is spherical, then the automorphism group of \(C\) admits a torsion-free uniform lattice.

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