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zbMath0626.20027MaRDI QIDQ3029191

Jacques Tits

Publication date: 1986

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zbMATH Keywords

treessimplexesfundamental domainsemisimple algebraic groupsbuildingschamber systemsKac-Moody groupsBorel subgroupunipotent subgroupssimple connectednessamalgamated sumcategory of ordered sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Trees (05C05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Geometric group theory (20F65) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06)

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