Serre's version of the Centre Conjecture for spherical buildings
Let be a connected group, let be its spherical Tits building over , and identify with its geometric realization. A subcomplex of is convex if, whenever two points of are not opposite in , contains the unique geodesic joining them; it is contractible if it has the homotopy type of a point. Serre's Centre Conjecture. If is a convex and contractible subcomplex of , then there is a point fixed by every automorphism of that stabilizes . This asserts the existence of a canonical centre for every convex contractible subcomplex; it was proved by M. Mühlherr and J. Tits for spherical buildings of classical type, while the general version stated here is not resolved by the supplied context.
References
Primary source
M. Bate, B. Martin, G. Roehrle and R. Tange, “Closed Orbits and uniform S-instability in Geometric Invariant Theory”, arXiv:0904.4853 (2011).
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