Serre's version of the Centre Conjecture for spherical buildings
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.
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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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