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A compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building /

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The aim of this work is the definition of the polyhedral compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of a reductive group over a local field. In addition, an explicit description of the boundary is given. In order to make this work as self-contained as possible and also accessible to non-experts in...

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Main Author: Landvogt, Erasmus, 1967-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1996]
Series:Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; 1619.
Subjects:
Linear algebraic groups.
Buildings (Group theory)
Groupes linéaires algébriques.
Immeubles (Théorie des groupes)
Lineaire groepen.
Geometria algebrica.
Bruhat-Tits-Gebäude.
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Summary:The aim of this work is the definition of the polyhedral compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of a reductive group over a local field. In addition, an explicit description of the boundary is given. In order to make this work as self-contained as possible and also accessible to non-experts in Bruhat-Tits theory, the construction of the Bruhat-Tits building itself is given completely.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-151) and index.
ISBN:9783540455561 (electronic bk.)
3540455566 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0075-8434 ;