Restricted universal groups for right-angled buildings (Q6060074)

Universal groups acting on trees were introduced by \textit{M. Burger} and \textit{S. Mozes} in [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 92, 113--150 (2000; Zbl 1007.22012)]. Given any permutation group \(F\) acting on a set \(S\), there is a ``largest'' group \(\mathcal{U}(F)\) acting on the regular tree of degree \(|S|\) such that all local actions (i.e., the induced actions on the stars around a vertex and its image) belong to \(F\). If \(S\) is finite, then these universal groups are totally disconnected locally compact (tdlc) with respect to the permutation topology. They provide interesting classes of examples, and the study of and the interplay between their permutational and topological properties leads to a better understanding of tdlc groups. In particular, \textit{A. Le Boudec}, in [Comment. Math. Helv. 91, No. 2, 253--293 (2016; Zbl 1387.20020)], has studied restricted universal groups, where the prescribed behavior is allowed to be violated in a finite number of vertices. On the other hand, the authors have been studying universal groups acting on right-angled buildings, a class of geometric objects with a much more general structure than trees (see [Forum Math. 33, No. 4, 867--888 (2021; Zbl 1486.51008)]). In this paper, the two ideas are combined: it investigates restricted universal groups that act on right-angled buildings. The authors show several permutational and topological properties of those groups, including as a main result, a precise criterion for when these groups are virtually simple.