Loop groups and twin buildings

DOI10.1023/A:1019603827308zbMATH Open1010.51010arXivmath/0109128MaRDI QIDQ698124FDOQ698124

Authors: Linus Kramer 

Publication date: 18 September 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe some buildings related to complex Kac-Moody groups. First we describe the spherical building of SLn(C) (i.e. the projective geometry PG(Cn)) and its Veronese representation. Next we recall the construction of the affine building associated to a discrete valuation on the rational function field $C(z)$. Then we describe the same building in terms of complex Laurent polynomials, and introduce the Veronese representation, which is an equivariant embedding of the building into an affine Kac-Moody algebra. Next, we introduce topological twin buildings. These buildings can be used for a proof - which is a variant of the proof by Quillen and Mitchell - of Bott periodicity which uses only topological geometry. At the end we indicate very briefly that the whole process works also for affine real almost split Kac-Moody groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109128

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zbMATH Keywords

loop groupbuildingsKac-Moody groupaffine buildingtwin buildings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Topological nonlinear incidence structures (51H15)

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