Rigidity at infinity of trees and Euclidean buildings

DOI10.1007/S00031-015-9338-5MaRDI QIDQ265488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koen Struyve

Publication date 4 April 2016

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1609

zbMATH Keywords

boundary at infinityEuclidean buildingisometrytree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: We show that if a group G acts isometrically on a locally finite leafless R-tree inducing a two-transitive action on its ends, then this tree is determined by the action of G on the boundary. As a corollary we obtain that locally finite Euclidean buildings without tree or cone factors are determined by their complete building at infinity.

Review text

\textit{B. Leeb} [A characterization of irreducible symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings of higher rank by their asymptotic geometry. Bonn: Univ. Bonn, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (2000; Zbl 1005.53031)] and \textit{L. Kramer} and \textit{R. M. Weiss} [Adv. Math. 253, 1--49 (2014; Zbl 1327.51015)] obtained rigidity results for Euclidean buildings and related spaces. The paper under review is based on and extends their work. The author's main result is that a locally finite leafless \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree \(T\) with at least three ends and which admits a group \(G\) of isometries acting 2-transitively on the ends of \(T\) can be reconstructed, up to a scaling factor, from the boundary at infinity of \(T\) and the group action. The main step of the proof is a study of the set of branch points of \(T\) and the recognition of the bounded subgroups by the action on \(\partial_\infty T\). From then on, the author is able to follow the same arguments used by Kramer and Weiss [loc. cit.]. As a corollary it is then shown that an isometry \(f :\partial_\infty X_1\to \partial_\infty X_2\) between the buildings at infinity of two locally-finite irreducible Euclidean buildings \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) of dimension at least two extends (after rescaling the metric on \(X_2\)) to an isometry \(\tilde f :X_1\to X_2\). Furthermore, in case that \(X_1\) is not a Euclidean cone this isometry is unique. This result is achieved by considering the projectivity group associated to a panel \(a\) of \(\partial_\infty X_1\) and its action on the ends of the panel tree \(X_1(a)\).

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