Polygons in buildings and their refined side lengths
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Polygons in buildings and their refined side lengths
zbMATH Open document ID: 1205.53037
author: Michael Kapovich
author: Bernhard Leeb
author: John Millson
published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA
publication date: 2010-01-25T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406305
review text: Let \(S\) be a unit sphere and \(W_{\text{sph}}\) be a finite subgroup of Isom\((S)\) generated by reflections (i.e. an involutive isometry with fixed-point set a great sphere of codimension 1). The pair \((S, W_{\text{sph}})\) is called a spherical Coxeter complex. \(W_{\text{sph}}\) is called the Weyl group and the fixed point sets of the reflections in \(W_{\text{sph}}\) are called walls. The spherical model Weyl chamber, denoted by \(\Delta _{\text{sph}}\), is \(S/W_{\text{sph}}\). An Euclidean Coxeter complex is a pair \((E, W_{\text{aff}})\), where \(E\) is an Euclidean space and \(W_{\text{aff}}\subset \text{Isom}(E)\) is a subgroup generated by reflections (reflections at an affine hyperplane). Let us suppose that the induced reflection group on the sphere at infinity \(\partial _{\text{Tits}}E\) is finite. Take the unit sphere \(S\) to be \(\partial _{\text{Tits}}E\) and \(W_{\text{sph}}:=\text{rot}(W_{\text{aff}})\) where \(\text{rot}:\text{Isom}(E)\to \text{Isom}(\partial_{\text{Tits}}E)\) maps an affine transformation to its linear part, and consider the associated spherical Coxeter complex. The Euclidean model Weyl chamber \(\Delta_{\text{euc}}\) of \((E,W_{\text{aff}})\) is the Euclidean cone over \(\Delta_{\text{sph}}\). Let \((p,q)\) be a pair of points in \(E\). To this pair, one can associate the image in \(\Delta_{\text{euc}}\) of the translation carrying \(p\) to \(q\). This vector \(\sigma (p,q)\) is called the \(\Delta\)-length of the oriented geodesic segment \(\overline{pq}\). In this paper, the authors prove that, for thick Euclidean buildings \(X\), the set \({\mathcal P}_n (X)\) of possible \(\Delta_{\text{euc}}\)-valued side lengths of oriented \(n\)-gons depends only on the associated spherical Coxeter complex and is the space of \(\Delta _{\text{euc}}\)-valued weights of semistable weighted configurations on the Tits boundary \(\partial_{\text{Tits}}X\). This is a consequence of the method used to prove the theorem. The authors use a re…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51E24
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E42
zbMATH DE Number: 5662376
zbMATH Keywords: buildings
zbMATH Keywords: triangles
zbMATH Keywords: semistable configurations
zbMATH Keywords: weighted configurations
zbMATH Keywords: Coxeter complexes
reviewed by: Ana Pereira do Vale
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1970863607
arXiv ID: math/0406305
Wikidata QID: Q102394348
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DOI: 10.1007/S00039-009-0026-2
description: scientific article