Metric characterizations of spherical and Euclidean buildings

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.521zbMATH Open1002.51008arXivmath/0106188OpenAlexW3101816145MaRDI QIDQ1601280FDOQ1601280

Authors: Alexander Lytchak, Ruth Charney 

Publication date: 25 June 2002

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

Abstract: A building is a simplicial complex with a covering by Coxeter complexes (called apartments) satisfying certain combinatorial conditions. A building whose apartments are spherical (respectively Euclidean) Coxeter complexes has a natural piecewise spherical (respectively Euclidean) metric with nice geometric properties. We show that spherical and Euclidean buildings are completely characterized by some simple, geometric properties.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingsCAT(0) spacesEuclidean buildingsspherical buildingsmetric characterisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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