Tits' Center Conjecture for convex subcomplexes of spherical buildings

Let BB be a spherical building and let KBK\subseteq B be a convex subcomplex. A center is a point fixed by the automorphisms of BB preserving KK. Tits' Center Conjecture. Either KK is a subbuilding, or the action

StabAut(B)(K)KStab_{Aut(B)}(K)\curvearrowright K

has a fixed point. The conjecture was proposed by J. Tits and concerns fixed-point phenomena for convex subcomplexes; the source abstract states that the result is proved for buildings of type E7E_7 or E8E_8, completing the proof for thick spherical buildings together with earlier work.

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Carlos Ramos-Cuevas, “The Center Conjecture for thick spherical buildings”, arXiv:0909.2761 (2013).

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