Buildings

Kenneth S. Brown
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Kenneth S. Brown: Cornell University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter IV in Buildings, 1989, pp 76-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The definition of “building”, to be given in the first section below, involves three axioms which are quite easy to state. It is not so easy, however, to motivate this definition. In particular, you will probably wonder how someone (namely, Tits) came up with these axioms. I will not attempt to answer this question now, but I will make some historical remarks in the next chapter (§V.4) which should make the definition seem less mysterious.

Keywords: Projective Plane; Simplicial Complex; Coxeter Group; Homotopy Type; Spherical Building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1019-1_4

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