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Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
Bernhard Muhlherr
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Description for Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
Hardback. Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 line illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 634.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Annals of Mathematics Studies
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691166902
SKU
V9780691166902
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About Bernhard Muhlherr
Bernhard Muhlherr is professor of mathematics at the University of Giessen in Germany. Holger P. Petersson is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Hagen in Germany. Richard M. Weiss is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. He is the author of The Structure of Spherical Buildings, Quadrangular Algebras and The Structure of Affine Buildings (all ... Read more
Reviews for Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
"An impressive tour de force."
Bertrand Remy, Jahresbericht der DMV
Bertrand Remy, Jahresbericht der DMV