Descent in Buildings (Am-190)
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Overview
Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the residues fixed by a group to form a kind of subbuilding or "form" of the original building. At the center of this theory is the notion of a Tits index, a combinatorial version of the notion of an index in the relative theory of algebraic groups. These results are combined at the end to show that every exceptional Bruhat-Tits building arises as a form of a "residually pseudo-split" Bruhat-Tits building. The book concludes with a display of the Tits indices associated with each of these exceptional forms.
This is the third and final volume of a trilogy that began with Richard Weiss' The Structure of Spherical Buildings and The Structure of Affine Buildings.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780691166919
- ISBN-10: 0691166919
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: September 2015
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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