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Lectures on Buildings
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This book, based on lectures delivered
in London and Chicago, was originally published by Academic Press in 1989. It
provides a clear and concise introduction to the theory of buildings, and its
continued popularity has led the University of Chicago Press to publish a new
edition in 2009. The earlier edition dealt with both spherical and affine
buildings, and the new edition includes a chapter on twin buildings, which
have become increasingly significant in recent years. Spherical buildings are important for
finite groups of Lie type, while affine buildings are applied in studying p-adic and arithmetic groups, and twin
buildings come into their own for groups of Kac-Moody type. For a detailed
discussion on buildings, see the appropriate page on this website. |
