Rank-one isometries of buildings and quasi-morphisms of Kac-Moody groups.

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0042-2zbMATH Open1206.20046arXiv0809.0470OpenAlexW2037253986MaRDI QIDQ2269894FDOQ2269894

Authors: Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Koji Fujiwara 

Publication date: 12 March 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given an irreducible non-spherical non-affine (possibly non-proper) building $X$, we give sufficient conditions for a group $G<Aut(X)$ to admit an infinite-dimensional space of non-trivial quasi-morphisms. The result applies to all irreducible (non-spherical and non-affine) Kac-Moody groups over integral domains. In particular, we obtain finitely presented simple groups of infinite commutator width, thereby answering a question of Valerii G. Bardakov from the Kourovka notebook. Independently of these considerations, we also include a discussion of rank one isometries of proper CAT(0) spaces from a rigidity viewpoint. In an appendix, we show that any homogeneous quasi-morphism of a locally compact group with integer values is continuous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0470

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingsKac-Moody groupsrank one isometriesquasi-morphismscommutator lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Geometric group theory (20F65) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Simple groups (20E32)

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