affine building; triangle building; Bruhat-Tits building; Hjelmslev plane; strongly-transitive group
Abstract :
[en] In a sequence of papers, we will show that the existence of a (half) strongly-transitive automorphism group acting on a locally finite triangle building Delta forces Delta to be one of the examples arising from PSL3(K) for a locally finite local skewfield K. Furthermore, we introduce some Moufang-like conditions in affine buildings of rank 3, and characterize those examples arising from algebraic,classical or mixed type groups over a local field. In particular, we characterize the p-adic-like affine rank 3 buildings by a certain p-adic Moufang condition, and show that such a condition has zero probability to survive in hyperbolic rank 3 buildings. This shows that a construction of hyperbolic buildings as analogues of p-adic affine buildings is very unlikely to exist. Mathematics Subject Classifications (1991): 51E24, 51C05.
Disciplines :
Mathematics
Author, co-author :
Van Maldeghem, H.
Van Steen, Kristel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Bioinformatique
Language :
English
Title :
Characterizations by automorphism groups of some rank 3 buildings - I. Some properties of half strongly-transitive triangle buildings
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