Two-dimensional affine R-buildings defined by generalized polygons with non-discrete valuation

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2011.V7.N3.A11MaRDI QIDQ635873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Koen Stryve, Hendrik Van Maldeghem

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/0909.4967

zbMATH Keywords

affine buildingsapartment systemsgeneralized polygonsvaluation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: In this paper we complete the proof of the "equivalence" of non-discrete R-buildings of types A~_2 and C~_2, with, respectively, projective planes and generalized quadrangles with non-discrete valuation, begun in previous paper of the authors. We also complete the proof of the "equivalence" of an affine building of rank 3 with a generalized polygon with discrete valuation (by proving this for generalized hexagons). We also complement a result of the second author by proving uniqueness up to scalar multiples of the weight sequences of polygons with non-discrete valuation. As an application, we produce some new explicitly defined non-discrete R-buildings, in particular a class of type A~_2 with arbitrary residues.

Review text

An important tool in the study of affine buildings is their building at infinity. In the rank \(3\) case, this is a ``generalized polygon, but not all generalized polygons may appear as boundaries of buildings. It turns out that the additional structure need for a generalized polygon to be the boundary of some building is a ``discrete valuation. This notion was introduced by the second author in [\textit{H. van Maldeghem}, Arch. Math. 53, No.~3, 513--520 (1989; Zbl 0659.51010)]. The result mentioned above was conjectured in [loc. cit.]; the paper under review completes its proof. This paper also treats with non-discrete affine buildings. In this case, the relevant notion is the one of ``generalized polygon with real valuation, introduced by the author in [\textit{K. Struyve} and \textit{H. Van Maldeghem}, Adv. Geom. 10, No. 3, 465--476 (2010; Zbl 1207.51010)]. However, they are not able to prove in the general case that any generalized \(n\)-gon is the boundary of a non-discrete affine building: they give a proof only in the cases when \(n=3\) or \(4\).

Recommendations

• Generalized polygons with non-discrete valuation defined by two-dimensional affine ℝ-buildings
• Affine twin R-buildings
• Generalized polygons with valuation
• Non-discrete Euclidean buildings for the Ree and Suzuki groups
• The Structure of Affine Buildings. (AM-168)

Cited in

(2)

• Generalized polygons with valuation
• Generalized polygons with non-discrete valuation defined by two-dimensional affine ℝ-buildings

This page was built for publication: Two-dimensional affine \(\mathbb R\)-buildings defined by generalized polygons with non-discrete valuation

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q635873)