Local-to-global rigidity of Bruhat-Tits buildings

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Authors Mikael de la Salle, Romain Tessera

Publication date 12 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02775, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1506067284

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat-Tits building

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Geometric group theory (20F65) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: A vertex-transitive graph X is called local-to-global rigid if there exists R such that every other graph whose balls of radius R are isometric to the balls of radius R in X is covered by X. Let $dgeq4$. We show that the 1-skeleton of an affine Bruhat-Tits building of type $widetilde{A}_{d-1}$ is local-to-global rigid if and only if the underlying field has characteristic 0. For example the Bruhat-Tits building of $SL(d,F_p((t)))$ is not local-to-global rigid, while the Bruhat-Tits building of $SL(d,Q_p)$ is local-to-global rigid.

Review text

A vertex-transitive graph \(X\) is called LG-rigid, if for some positive real \(R\) every other graph whose balls of radius \(R\) are isometric to the balls of radius \(R\) in \(X\) is covered by \(X\). Let \(K\) be a non-Archimedean local skew field. The authors prove the following main result. The Bruhat-Tits building of type \(\widetilde A_{d-1}\) constructed from \(K\) (belonging to the group \(\mathrm{PGL}(d,K)\)) is not LG-rigid if \(d\geq 3\) and \(\operatorname {char}K \neq 0\), but it is LG-rigid if \(d\geq 4\) and \(\operatorname{char}K =0\). The proof uses earlier work of the authors [``Characterizing a vertex-transitive graph by a large ball, J. Topology (to appear)].

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