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Twin Buildings and Applications to S-Arithmetic Groups

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1996
ISBN
3540619739, 9783540619734
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9704301 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Edition
1996
Pages
130\131
Time added
2013-12-23 08:18:51

Description

This book is addressed to mathematicians and advanced students interested in buildings, groups and their interplay. Its first part introduces - presupposing good knowledge of ordinary buildings - the theory of twin buildings, discusses its group-theoretic background (twin BN-pairs), investigates geometric aspects of twin buildings and applies them to determine finiteness properties of certain S-arithmetic groups. This application depends on topological properties of some subcomplexes of spherical buildings. The background of this problem, some examples and the complete solution for all "sufficiently large" classical buildings are covered in detail in the second part of the book.

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