Metric characterizations of spherical and Euclidean buildings

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.521MaRDI QIDQ1601280zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Lytchak, Ruth 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, https://eudml.org/doc/122280, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol5/paper17.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsCAT(0) spacesEuclidean buildingsspherical buildingsmetric characterisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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