Triangle buildings and actions of type III₁/q^ 2

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1996.0115MaRDI QIDQ1923968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jacqui Ramagge, Guyan Robertson

Publication date 24 November 1996

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6071

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-algebradoubly periodic apartmentstriangle buildingvon Neumann algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: We study certain group actions on triangle buildings and their boundaries and some von Neumann algebras which can be constructed from them. In particular, for buildings of order $qgeq3$ certain natural actions on the boundary are hyperfinite of type $qs$.

Review text

The authors generalize the notion of doubly periodic apartments introduced by \textit{A. M. Mantero} and \textit{A. Zappa} in the reduced \(C^*\)-algebra of a triangle building [preprint, Genova (1993)]. They prove several useful facts about periodic apartments, and the periodic limit points they define on the boundary \(\Omega\) of a triangle building \(\Delta\). They show that periodic boundary points form a dense subset of the boundary of trivial measure with respect to this class. They also prove that the only boundary points stabilized by the action of \(\Gamma\) (often refered to as an \(\widetilde A_2\) group) are the periodic limit points. This enables them to deduce that the action of \(\Gamma\) on \(\Omega\) is also ergodic, thus establishing that the von Neumann algebra \(L^\infty (\Omega) \rtimes \Gamma\) is a factor. In Section 4.1. they prove that, if \(q \geq 3\), \(L^\infty (\Omega) \rtimes \Gamma\) is the hyperfinite factor of type \(\text{III}_{1/q}2\). In Section 4.2. they consider the action of some other groups \(G\) acting on triangle buildings and they show that, under certain conditions, the action is of type \(\text{III}_{1/q^2}\). In particular, they prove that, if \(\Omega\) is the boundary of the building associated to PGL \((3, \mathbb{F}_q ((x))\), then the action of PGL \((3, \mathbb{F}_q (x))\) is of type \(\text{III}_{1/q^2}\).

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