Apartments preserving transformations of Grassmannians of infinite-dimensional vector spaces (Q2402468)

The Grassmannians of an infinite-dimensional vector space \(V\) are defined as the orbits of the action of the general linear group \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\) on the set of all subspaces. Let \(\mathcal{G}\) be one of these Grassmannians. An apartment in \(\mathcal{G}\) is the set of all elements of \(\mathcal{G}\) spanned by subsets of a certain basis of \(V\) . The author shows that every bijective transformation \(f\) of \(\mathcal{G}\) such that \(f\) and \(f^{-1}\) send apartments to apartments is induced by a semilinear automorphism of \(V\) . Elements \(X,Y\in \mathcal{G}\) are called adjacent if \[ \dim X/ X\cap Y=\dim Y/ X\cap Y=1, \] that is, \(X\cap Y\) is a hyperplane in both \(X\) and \(Y.\) The Grassmann graph \(\Gamma(\mathcal{G})\) is the graph whose vertex set is \(\mathcal{G}\) and the edges are pairs of adjacent subspaces. In the case when \(\mathcal G\) consists of subspaces whose dimension and codimension both are infinite, the author shows the following. Let \(\mathcal{C},\mathcal{C}'\) be two connected components of \(\Gamma(\mathcal{G})\). If \(f\) is a bijection of \(\mathcal{C}\) to \(\mathcal{C}'\) such that \(f\) and \(f^{-1}\) send apartments to apartments, then \(f\) is induced by a semilinear automorphism of \(V.\) The paper is clear, well written and easy to follow. The proofs and arguments are mostly set-theoretic.