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Euclidean Buildings: Geometry and Group Actions by Guy Rousseau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Euclidean Buildings: Geometry and Group Actions about?

The theory of buildings lies at the interplay between geometry and group theory and is one of the main tools for studying the structure of many groups. Actually, buildings were introduced by Jacques Tits in the 1950s to better understand and study a semi-simple algebraic group over a field. For a general field, its associated building is a spherical building, called its Tits building. It is a simplicial complex and, in this book, one considers a geometric realization called vectorial building. When the field is real valued, François Bruhat and Jacques Tits constructed another building taking into account the topology of the field. This Bruhat-Tits building is a polysimplicial complex and its usual geometric realization is an affine building. These vectorial or affine buildings are the main examples of Euclidean buildings. This book develops the general abstract theory of these Euclidean buildings (the buildings with Euclidean affine spaces as apartments). It is largely self contained and emphasizes the metric aspects of these objects, as CAT(0) spaces very similar to Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type. The book studies their compactifications, their links with groups,

Who reads Euclidean Buildings: Geometry and Group Actions?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Guy Rousseau
Publisher
European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House. EMS Press
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9783985470396
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Mathematics, Geometry And Topology, Stem

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