Free polygons, twin trees, and CAT(1)-spaces

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2011.V7.N3.A15MaRDI QIDQ635877zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Katrin Tent

Publication date 24 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2011.V7.N3.A15

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(1)\)-spacesgeneralized polygonstwin trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

Generalized polygons with the Moufang property have been classified by \textit{J. Tits} and \textit{R. M. Weiss} [Moufang polygons. Berlin: Springer (2002; Zbl 1010.20017)]. The goal of the paper under review is to give new constructions of generalized polygons which do not have this Moufang property, but still have a strongly transitive group of automorphisms. These constructions are done through model-theoretic techniques. By taking ultraproducts, the author is able to use these examples to construct new examples of groups acting strongly transitively on twin trees and of a group acting on a \(\mathrm{CAT}(1)\) space with some kind of strong transitivity.

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• Fraïssé structures with universal automorphism groups
• On irreducible (B,N)-pairs of rank 2
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• On the model theory of open generalized polygons
• Simplicity of some automorphism groups.
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