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Amenability of actions on the boundary of a building

Group Theory 2009-07-14 v1

Abstract

We prove that the action of the automorphism group of a building on its boundary is topologically amenable. The notion of boundary we use was defined in a previous paper \cite{CL}. It follows from this result that such groups have property (A), and thus satisfy the Novikov conjecture. It may also lead to applications in rigidity theory.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2033,
  title  = {Amenability of actions on the boundary of a building},
  author = {Jean Lecureux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2033},
  year   = {2009}
}