Edifices: building-like spaces associated to linear algebraic groups

DOI10.2140/IIG.2023.20.79MaRDI QIDQ6060072zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Bate, Benjamin Martin, Gerhard Röhrle

Publication date 2 November 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11770

zbMATH Keywords

edificesgeometric invariant theoryspherical buildingsTits centre conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: Given a semisimple linear algebraic $k$-group $G$, one has a spherical building $Delt{a}_G$, and one can interpret the geometric realisation $Delt{a}_G(mathbbR)$ of $Delt{a}_G$ in terms of cocharacters of $G$. The aim of this paper is to extend this construction to the case when $G$ is an arbitrary connected linear algebraic group; we call the resulting object $Delt{a}_G(mathbbR)$ the spherical edifice of $G$. We also define an object $V_G(mathbbR)$ which is an analogue of the vector building for a semisimple group; we call $V_G(mathbbR)$ the vector edifice. The notions of a linear map and an isomorphism between edifices are introduced; we construct some linear maps arising from natural group-theoretic operations. We also devise a family of metrics on $V_G(mathbbR)$ and show they are all bi-Lipschitz equivalent to each other; with this extra structure, $V_G(mathbbR)$ becomes a complete metric space. Finally, we present some motivation in terms of geometric invariant theory and variations on the Tits Centre Conjecture.

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