Automorphisms of non-spherical buildings have unbounded displacement

zbMATH Open1276.51004arXiv0710.1426MaRDI QIDQ447754FDOQ447754

Authors: Peter Abramenko, Kenneth S. Brown 

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Published in: Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If f is a nontrivial automorphism of a thick building Delta of purely infinite type, we prove that there is no bound on the distance that f moves a chamber. This has the following group-theoretic consequence: If G is a group of automorphisms of Delta with bounded quotient, then the center of G is trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1426

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingautomorphismcenterdisplacement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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