Two exceptional 3-adic affine buildings

DOI10.1007/BF00147595zbMath0692.20038MaRDI QIDQ583375

Michael J. Wester, William M. Kantor, Thomas Meixner

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

orthogonal groups; affine buildings; congruence subgroups; arithmetic group; 3-adic numbers; building-like geometry; discrete chamber-transitive automorphism groups; finite chamber transitive GABs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20B25: Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures

20F65: Geometric group theory

20H05: Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects)

22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups

20G25: Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers

51E25: Other finite nonlinear geometries