Strongly transitive actions on Euclidean buildings

DOI10.1007/S11856-017-1476-0MaRDI QIDQ2357003zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Linus Kramer, Jeroen Schillewaert

Publication date 7 June 2017

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03594

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupEuclidean buildingstrong transitivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: We prove a decomposition result for a group $G$ acting strongly transitively on the Tits boundary of a Euclidean building. As an application we provide a local to global result for discrete Euclidean buildings, which generalizes results in the locally compact case by Caprace--Ciobotaru and Burger--Mozes. Let $X$ be a Euclidean building without cone factors. If a group $G$ of automorphisms of $X$ acts strongly transitively on the spherical building at infinity $partialX$, then the $G$-stabilizer of every affine apartment in $X$ contains all reflections along thick walls. In particular $G$ acts strongly transitively on $X$ if $X$ is simplicial and thick.

Review text

The authors consider a Euclidean building \(X\), its spherical building \(\partial X\) at infinity with respect to the complete apartment system of \(X\) and a group \(G\) of automorphisms of \(X\). The main result of the paper is Theorem B, a decomposition result for the \(G\)-stabilizer \(B\) of a chamber \(c\) in the apartment \(\partial A\) at infinity of an apartment \(A\) of \(X\): if \(\partial X\) is thick, no irreducible factor of X is a Euclidean cone and \(G\) acts strongly transitively on \(\partial X\), then \(B\) splits as \(B = TV\), where \(T\) is the pointwise stabilizer of \(\partial A\) and \(V\) consists of all elements in \(B\) which fix a Weyl chamber \(S\) in \(A\) with \(\partial S = c\); the latter is a normal subgroup of \(B\). As a corollary of Theorem B, the authors obtain a local-to-global result for the action of \(G\). If \(X\) is a thick simplicial Euclidean building and \(G\) consists of type-preserving automorphisms of \(X\), then the action of \(G\) on \(\partial X\) is strongly transitive if and only if \(G\) acts strongly transitively on \(X\). This generalizes a result of \textit{P.-E. Caprace} and \textit{C. Ciobotaru} [Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 35, No. 4, 1056--1078 (2015; Zbl 1355.37047)], who additionally assumed that \(X\) is locally finite and that \(G\) is a closed subgroup of Aut\((X)\), and of \textit{M. Burger} and \textit{S. Mozes} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 92, 113--150 (2000; Zbl 1007.22012)] in the case of trees.

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