Two exceptional 3-adic affine buildings

DOI10.1007/BF00147595MaRDI QIDQ583375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William M. Kantor, Thomas Meixner, Michael J. Wester

Publication date 1990

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00147595

zbMATH Keywords

3-adic numbersaffine buildingsarithmetic groupbuilding-like geometrycongruence subgroupsdiscrete chamber-transitive automorphism groupsfinite chamber transitive GABsorthogonal groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Geometric group theory (20F65) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Other finite nonlinear geometries (51E25)

Review text

The authors construct in a very explicit way discrete chamber-transitive automorphism groups G of two affine buildings of type \(\tilde C_ 2\) related to orthogonal groups over the field \({\mathbb{Q}}_ 3\) of 3-adic numbers. In order to describe G as an arithmetic group, they use the construction of these buildings by classes of \({\mathbb{Z}}_ 3\)-lattices in resp. 6- and 5-dimensional vector space over \({\mathbb{Q}}_ 3\). They calculate the stabilizer in G of a vertex (for each G) and it is shown how all groups G are related. Then these groups G are used to produce finite chamber transitive GABs (a GAB is a building-like geometry) belonging to the diagram \(\tilde C_ 2\). This is achieved upon passage modulo ``level n congruence subgroups of G (normal subgroups consisting of matrices which are the identity matrix modulo n, \(n>1\) and n not divisible by 3). No similar results can be expected for many other affine buildings. For some 2-adic buildings, this was done by \textit{W. Kantor} [J. Algebra 92, 208-223 (1985; Zbl 0562.51006)].

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