Combinatorial and group-theoretic compactifications of buildings

DOI10.5802/AIF.2624zbMATH Open1266.51016arXiv0901.4188OpenAlexW2953231723MaRDI QIDQ646399FDOQ646399

Jean Lécureux, Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace

Publication date: 17 November 2011

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let X be a building of arbitrary type. A compactification $C_r(X)$ of the set Res(X) of spherical residues of X is introduced. We prove that it coincides with the horofunction compactification of Res(X) endowed with a natural combinatorial distance which we call the root-distance. Points of $C_r(X)$ admit amenable stabilisers in Aut(X) and conversely, any amenable subgroup virtually fixes a point in $C_r(X)$. In addition, it is shown that, provided Aut(X)is transitive enough, this compactification also coincides with the group-theoretic compactification constructed using the Chabauty topology on closed subgroups of Aut(X). This generalises to arbitrary buildings results established by Y. Guivarc'h and B. R'emy in the Bruhat--Tits case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4188

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingcompactificationamenable groupChabauty topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25)

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