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Some remarks on proper actions, proper metric spaces, and buildings

Group Theory 2022-09-07 v4 General Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We discuss various aspects of isometric group actions on proper metric spaces. As one application, we show that a proper and Weyl transitive action on a euclidean building is strongly transitive on the maximal atlas (the complete apartment system) of the building.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12837,
  title  = {Some remarks on proper actions, proper metric spaces, and buildings},
  author = {Linus Kramer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12837},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v3: Substantially expanded and revised. v4: minimal changes. To appear in Adv. in Geometry