Tits building

E921614

combinatorial structure geometric structure mathematical object

A Tits building is a highly structured combinatorial and geometric object that encodes the incidence relations of subspaces or parabolic subgroups associated with a reductive algebraic or Lie group.

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Label	Occurrences
Tits building canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	combinatorial structure ⓘ geometric structure ⓘ mathematical object ⓘ
appliesTo	Chevalley group NERFINISHED ⓘ classical group ⓘ exceptional algebraic group ⓘ
arisesFrom	flags of subspaces in a vector space ⓘ parabolic subgroups of a reductive group ⓘ
associatedWith	reductive Lie group ⓘ reductive algebraic group ⓘ
characterizedBy	Weyl distance function ⓘ apartment system ⓘ strong transitivity of automorphism group ⓘ
definedBy	axioms of incidence geometry ⓘ
encodes	incidence relations ⓘ parabolic subgroup structure ⓘ subspace incidence ⓘ
field	Lie theory ⓘ algebraic geometry ⓘ group theory ⓘ incidence geometry ⓘ
generalizes	flag complex of a vector space ⓘ projective space incidence structure ⓘ
hasComponent	Weyl group NERFINISHED ⓘ apartment ⓘ chamber ⓘ panel ⓘ
hasProperty	highly symmetric ⓘ homogeneous under automorphism group ⓘ
hasType	affine building ⓘ hyperbolic building ⓘ spherical building ⓘ
introducedBy	Jacques Tits NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Jacques Tits NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	BN-pair ⓘ Coxeter system NERFINISHED ⓘ affine building ⓘ root system ⓘ spherical building ⓘ
studiedIn	geometric group theory ⓘ representation theory ⓘ
usedFor	classification of semisimple algebraic groups ⓘ classification of simple algebraic groups ⓘ study of BN-pairs ⓘ
usedIn	proofs of classification of simple groups of Lie type ⓘ study of arithmetic groups ⓘ study of p-adic Lie groups ⓘ

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Subject: Tits building
Description of subject: A Tits building is a highly structured combinatorial and geometric object that encodes the incidence relations of subspaces or parabolic subgroups associated with a reductive algebraic or Lie group.

Referenced by (1)

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Deligne–Lusztig theory → relatesTo → Tits building ⓘ