Actions of the face monoid associated to a Kac-Moody group on its building (Q1028295)

The paper under review is a sequel to the author's earlier work [Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 823 (2005; Zbl 1077.22024)] on the so-called face monoid \(\widehat{G}\), which is an infinite-dimensional algebraic monoid acting on the integrable highest weight modules of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra. The perspective and the contents of the present paper are well summarized in the author's own words. Namely, he says that the monoid \(\widehat{G}\) ``has similar structural properties as a reductive algebraic monoid with unit group a Kac-Moody group \(G\). Now we find natural extensions of the action of the Kac-Moody group \(G\) on its building \(\Omega\) to actions of the monoid \(\widehat{G}\) on \(\Omega\). These extensions are partly motivated by representation theory and the combinatorics of the faces of the Tits cone''.