A Curtis-Tits-Phan theorem for the twin-building of type \(A_{n-1}\)

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2008.11.025zbMath1175.51007arXiv0907.1388MaRDI QIDQ1014598

Rieuwert J. Blok, Corneliu G. Hoffman

Publication date: 29 April 2009

Published in: Journal of Algebra, Groups of Exceptional Type, Coxeter Groups and Related Geometries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1388

zbMATH Keywords

groups with BN-pairs; graphs of groups; twin building; Kac-Moody groups; twin buildings; Bass-Serre theory; amalgam; Curtis-Tits amalgams; universal completion; flip-flop geometry; weak Phan system; simply-laced diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20E42: Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings

20G44: Kac-Moody groups

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Curtis-Tits groups of simply-laced type, Curtis-Tits groups generalizing Kac-Moody groups of type \(\widetilde A_{n-1}\)., A Curtis-Tits-Phan theorem for the twin-building of type \(A_{n-1}\), 1-cohomology of simplicial amalgams of groups., Classification of Curtis-Tits and Phan amalgams with 3-spherical diagram

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