Automorphisms and opposition in twin buildings

DOI10.1017/S1446788712000481zbMATH Open1284.51009arXiv1203.6172OpenAlexW2133732806MaRDI QIDQ2861574FDOQ2861574

Authors: Alice Devillers, James Parkinson, Hendrik Van Maldeghem 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that every automorphism of a thick twin building interchanging the halves of the building maps some residue to an opposite one. Furthermore we show that no automorphism of a locally finite 2-spherical twin building of rank at least 3 maps every residue of one fixed type to an opposite. The main ingredient of the proof is a lemma that states that every duality of a thick finite projective plane admits an absolute point, i.e., a point mapped onto an incident line. Our results also hold for all finite irreducible spherical buildings of rank at least 3, and as a consequence we deduce that every involution of a thick irreducible finite spherical building of rank at least 3 has a fixed residue.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6172

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zbMATH Keywords

projective planesspherical buildingsresidueKac-Moody grouptwin buildings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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