Title Statements
- Full title :Lectures on buildings / Mark Ronan.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2009,
- Edition:Updated and rev. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009,
Notes
Previous edition: Boston, Mass. ; London : Academic Press, c1989.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 228 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226724997, 0226724999
- oclc:ocn751019721
- LC Classification:QA179
- Dewey Decimal:512.2
Table of Contents
Chamber systems and examples -- Buildings and the origin of chamber systems -- Chamber systems -- Two examples of buildings -- Exercises -- Coxeter complexes -- Coxeter groups and complexes -- Words and galleries -- Reduced words and homotopy -- Finite coxeter complexes -- Self-homotopy -- Exercises -- Buildings -- A definition of buildings -- Generalised m-gons -- the rank 2 case -- Residues and apartments -- Exercises -- Local properties and coverings -- Chamber systems of type m -- Coverings and the fundamental group -- The universal cover -- Examples -- Exercises -- Bn -- pairs -- Tits systems and buildings -- Parabolic subgroups -- Exercises -- Buildings of spherical type and root groups -- Some basic lemmas -- Root groups and the moufang property -- Commutator relations -- Moufang buildings -- the general case -- Exercises -- A construction of buildings -- Blueprints -- Natural labellings of moufang buildings -- Foundations -- Exercises -- The classification of spherical buildings -- A3 blueprints and foundations -- Diagrams with single bonds -- C3 foundations -- Cn buildings for n > 4 -- Tits diagrams and f4 buildings -- Finite buildings -- Exercises -- Affine buildings I -…
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