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Apartments preserving transformations of Grassmannians of infinite-dimensional vector spaces

Combinatorics 2017-01-12 v1

Abstract

We define the Grassmannians of an infinite-dimensional vector space VV as the orbits of the action of the general linear group GL(V){\rm GL}(V) on the set of all subspaces. Let G{\mathcal G} be one of these Grassmannians. An apartment in G{\mathcal G} is the set of all elements of G{\mathcal G} spanned by subsets of a certain basis of VV. We show that every bijective transformation ff of G{\mathcal G} such that ff and f1f^{-1} send apartments to apartments is induced by a semilinear automorphism of VV. In the case when G{\mathcal G} consists of subspaces whose dimension and codimension both are infinite, a such kind result will be proved also for the connected components of the associated Grassmann graph.

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@article{arxiv.1701.03054,
  title  = {Apartments preserving transformations of Grassmannians of infinite-dimensional vector spaces},
  author = {Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03054},
  year   = {2017}
}