Metric characterizations of spherical and Euclidean buildings

DOI10.2140/gt.2001.5.521zbMath1002.51008arXivmath/0106188OpenAlexW3101816145MaRDI QIDQ1601280

Alexander Lytchak, Ruth M. Charney

Publication date: 25 June 2002

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106188

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0) spacesspherical buildingsbuildingsEuclidean buildingsmetric characterisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

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Metric Properties of Euclidean Buildings ⋮ The Deligne complex for the four-strand braid group ⋮ Spherical subcomplexes of spherical buildings ⋮ A geometric construction of panel-regular lattices for buildings of types \(\widetilde A_2\) and \(\widetilde C_2\). ⋮ On the linearity of lattices in affine buildings and ergodicity of the singular Cartan flow ⋮ Coarse equivalences of Euclidean buildings. (With an appendix by Jeroen Schillewaert and Koen Struyve.) ⋮ Affine buildings for dihedral groups ⋮ Polar foliations of symmetric spaces ⋮ On the local structure and the homology of CAT(κ) spaces and euclidean buildings ⋮ A structure theorem for Euclidean buildings ⋮ A rank rigidity result for CAT(0) spaces with one-dimensional Tits boundaries

Cites Work

• Rigidity of quasi-isometries for symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings
• Some sporadic geometries related to PG(3,2)
• Orbihedra of nonpositive curvature
• Diameter rigidity of spherical polyhedra
• Singular Metrics of Nonpositive Curvature on Branched Covers of Riemannian Manifolds
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