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Descent of affine buildings - I. Large minimal angles

Metric Geometry 2012-10-24 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this two-part paper we prove an existence result for affine buildings arising from exceptional algebraic reductive groups. Combined with earlier results on classical groups, this gives a complete and positive answer to the conjecture concerning the existence of affine buildings arising from such groups defined over a (skew) field with a complete valuation, as proposed by Jacques Tits. This first part lays the foundations for our approach and deals with the `large minimal angle' case.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4245,
  title  = {Descent of affine buildings - I. Large minimal angles},
  author = {Bernhard Mühlherr and Koen Struyve and Hendrik Van Maldeghem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4245},
  year   = {2012}
}

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31 pages, revised version