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Uniform modular lattices and affine buildings

Combinatorics 2019-09-20 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple lattice-theoretic characterization for affine buildings of type A. We introduce a class of modular lattices, called uniform modular lattices, and show that uniform modular lattices and affine buildings of type A constitute the same object. This is an affine counterpart of the well-known equivalence between projective geometries (\simeq complemented modular lattices) and spherical buildings of type A.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00240,
  title  = {Uniform modular lattices and affine buildings},
  author = {Hiroshi Hirai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00240},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

ver 2; according to the suggestion of the referee, Euclidean building was changed to affine building. To appear in Advances in Geometry