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Local-to-global rigidity of Bruhat-Tits buildings

Group Theory 2017-10-05 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A vertex-transitive graph X is called local-to-global rigid if there exists R such that every other graph whose balls of radius R are isometric to the balls of radius R in X is covered by X. Let d4d\geq 4. We show that the 1-skeleton of an affine Bruhat-Tits building of type A~d1\widetilde A_{d-1} is local-to-global rigid if and only if the underlying field has characteristic 0. For example the Bruhat-Tits building of SL(d,Fp((t)))SL(d,F_p((t))) is not local-to-global rigid, while the Bruhat-Tits building of SL(d,Qp)SL(d,Q_p) is local-to-global rigid.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02775,
  title  = {Local-to-global rigidity of Bruhat-Tits buildings},
  author = {Mikael de la Salle and Romain Tessera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02775},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages