Radius-gap conjecture for convex subsets of spherical buildings

Let BB be a spherical building and let CBC\subseteq B be a closed convex subset. Write radC(C)rad_C(C) for the intrinsic radius of CC, namely the infimum of the radii of balls centered in CC and containing CC. Radius-gap conjecture. Either CC is a subbuilding, or

radC(C)π2.rad_C(C)\leq\frac{\pi}{2}.

This asks whether there is a gap between the intrinsic-radius-π\pi case, which forces CC to be a building, and the intrinsic-radius-at-most-π2\frac{\pi}{2} case, which gives the fixed-point property. The source presents this as a more general gap phenomenon related to the fixed-point conjecture.

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

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