Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
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Descent in Buildings (AM-190)
By (Author) Bernhard Mhlherr
By (author) Holger P. Petersson
By (author) Richard M. Weiss
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd November 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
511.33
Physical Properties
Hardback
352
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Description
Descent in Buildings begins with the resolution of a major open question about the local structure of Bruhat-Tits buildings. The authors then put their algebraic solution into a geometric context by developing a general fixed point theory for groups acting on buildings of arbitrary type, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the residues f
Reviews
"An impressive tour de force."--Bertrand Remy, Jahresbericht der DMV
Author Bio
Bernhard Muhlherr is professor of mathematics at the University of Giessen in Germany. Holger P. Petersson is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Hagen in Germany. Richard M. Weiss is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. He is the author of The Structure of Spherical Buildings, Quadrangular Algebras and The Structure of Affine Buildings (all Princeton) and the coauthor with Jacques Tits of Moufang Polygons.
