Publication:5289098

zbMath0851.22023MaRDI QIDQ5289098

Jacques Tits

Publication date: 11 November 1996

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups; Borel subalgebras; spherical buildings; Tits systems; Coxeter group; Bruhat-Tits buildings; groups of Kac-Moody type; Kac-Moody groups; twin buildings; foundation; apartments; Kac-Moody Lie algebras; Moufang property; algebraic simple groups; Galois twists; opposite chambers; Ronan-Tits theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

22E65: Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties

51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

20E42: Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings

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