Buildings: Theory and Applications
This book treats Jacques Tits's beautiful theory of buildings, making that theory accessible to readers with minimal background. It includes all the material of the earlier book Buildings by the second-named author, published by Springer-Verlag in 1989, which gave an introduction to buildings from the classical (simplicial) point of view. This new book also includes two other approaches to buildings, which nicely complement the simplicial approach: On the one hand, buildings may be viewed as abstract sets of chambers with a Weyl-group-valued distance function; this point of view has become increasingly important in the theory and applications…
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Weitere Autoren: Brown, Kenneth S.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-78834-0
- EAN: 9780387788340
- Produktnummer: 23149692
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 754 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.7 cm x D4.3 cm 1'191 g
- Auflage: 2008
- Reihenbandnummer: 248
- Gewicht: 1191
Über den Autor
Kenneth S. Brown has been a professor at Cornell since 1971. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 from MIT. He has published many works, including Buildings with Springer-Verlag in 1989, reprinted in 1998.Peter Abramenko received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He held various academic positions afterwards, including a Heisenberg fellowship from 1998 until 2001. Since 2001, he is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has previously published Twin Buildings and Applications to S-Arithmetic Groups for the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series for Springer (1996).
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