Serre's version of the Centre Conjecture for spherical buildings

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Let GG be a connected group, let X=X(G,k)X=X(G,k) be its spherical Tits building over kk, and identify XX with its geometric realization. A subcomplex YY of XX is convex if, whenever two points of YY are not opposite in XX, YY contains the unique geodesic joining them; it is contractible if it has the homotopy type of a point. Serre's Centre Conjecture. If YY is a convex and contractible subcomplex of XX, then there is a point y∈Yy\in Y fixed by every automorphism of XX that stabilizes YY. 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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