Exotic triangular Tits buildings (Q5952878)

In this article the author studies the triangular buildings (of type \(\widetilde{A}_2\)), whose vertices, following a theorem of \textit{J. Tits} [Finite geometries, buildings, and related topics, Pap. Conf., Pingree Park/CO (USA) 1988, 17-28 (1990; Zbl 0744.51013)], are naturally colored by the type of their \(2\)-balls. The new proof of this theorem given by the author allows him to show a prescription result, stating that this coloring can be freely chosen. In the last part of the paper the author studies an exotic triangular building of order \(2\). He firstly proves that in its universal cover the \(2\)-ball of the black vertex is not isomorphic to the one of the white vertex, and then he shows that the fundamental group of this building has finite index (\(6\) or \(12\)) in the one of the universal cover. He provides an example of triangular building of order \(2\) admitting a quotient with two vertices and with isotropy groups of order at most \(12\).