The extremal symmetry of arithmetic simplicial complexes

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.05.021MaRDI QIDQ452048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benson Farb, Amir Mohammadi

Publication date 19 September 2012

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3730

zbMATH Keywords

Bruhat-Tits buildinglatticenon-Archimedean local fieldrigiditysimplicial structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a higher-rank semisimple Lie group over a nonarchimedean local field, for example $G=mPGL(n,Q_P)$. To any lattice $L$ in $G$ there is an associated simplicial complex $B_L$, given by the quotient by $L$ of the Bruhat-Tits building associated to $G$. In this paper prove that the simplicial structure $B_L$ exhibits some remarkable and extremal symmetry properties, in particular when compared to any other simplicial structure on (any cover of) $B_L$.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a higer-rank semisimple Lie group over a non-Archimedean local field. To any lattice \(L\) of \(G\), there is an associated simplicial complex \(B_L\) given by the Bruhat-Tits theory. In this paper, the authors show that the simplicial complex structure of \(B_L\) realizes all simplicial symmetries of any simplicial complex homeomorphic to \(B_L\). Also, the authors prove a rigidity theorem characterizing arithmetic simplicial structures among all simplicial structures on the simplicial complex \(|B_L|\) of \(B_L\). These results can be regarded as the simplicial analogue of a theorem of Farb-Weinberger from Riemannian geometry.

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