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Descent of affine buildings - II. Minimal angle $\pi /3$ and exceptional quadrangles
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Abstract:

In this two-part paper we prove an existence result for affine buildings arising from exceptional algebraic reductive groups. Combined with earlier results on classical groups, this gives a complete and positive answer to the conjecture concerning the existence of affine buildings arising from such groups defined over a (skew) field with a complete valuation, as proposed by Jacques Tits.

This second part builds upon the results of the first part and deals with the remaining cases.

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Additional Information
  • Koen Struyve
  • Affiliation: Department of Pure Mathematics, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
  • Received by editor(s): January 19, 2012
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 23, 2012, and October 15, 2012
  • Published electronically: April 16, 2014
  • Additional Notes: The author was supported by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO - Vlaanderen)
  • © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 4367-4381
  • MSC (2010): Primary 51E24, 20E42
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-05986-2
  • MathSciNet review: 3206463