Quotients of buildings by groups acting freely on chambers

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2021.106730arXiv1711.09330MaRDI QIDQ6294385FDOQ6294385

Publication date: 25 November 2017

Abstract: We introduce certain directed multigraphs with extra structure, called Weyl graphs, which model quotients of Tits buildings by type-preserving chamber-free group actions. Their advantage over complexes of groups, which are often used for the CAT(0) Davis realization of buildings, is that Weyl graphs exploit the ultimate combinatorial W-metric structure of buildings. Weyl graphs generalize Tits's chambers systems of type M by allowing 2-residues to be quotients of generalized polygons by flag-free group actions, and Weyl graphs are easily constructed by amalgamating such quotients. We develop covering theory of Weyl graphs, which can be used to construct buildings as universal covers. We describe a method of obtaining a group presentation of the fundamental group of a Weyl graph, which acts chamber-freely on the covering building. The theory developed here is part of a fully general theory which deals with not necessarily chamber-free actions and the stacky version of buildings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

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