Can an anisotropic reductive group admit a Tits system?

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2011.V7.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ635864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Timothée Marquis

Publication date 24 August 2011

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2577

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic reductive groupsBN-pairsbuildingscompact groups

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: Seeking for a converse to a well-known theorem by Borel-Tits, we address the question whether the group of rational points G(k) of an anisotropic reductive k-group may admit a split spherical BN-pair. We show that if k is a perfect field or a local field, then such a BN-pair must be virtually trivial. We also consider arbitrary compact groups and show that the only abstract BN-pairs they can admit are spherical, and even virtually trivial provided they are split.

Review text

Seeking for a converse to a well-known theorem by Borel-Tits, the authors address the question whether the group \(G(k)\) of rational points of an anisotropic reductive \(k\)-group admits a split spherical BN-pair. They prove that if the field \(k\) is perfect or local, then such a pair must be virtually trivial.

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