The Tits Centre Conjecture

Let Δ\Delta be a thick spherical building. A subcomplex Σ\Sigma of Δ\Delta is completely reducible if every simplex of Σ\Sigma has an opposite in Σ\Sigma. Let Γ\Gamma be a subgroup of Aut(Δ)\operatorname{Aut}(\Delta) stabilising Σ\Sigma. A simplex fixed by Γ\Gamma is called a simplicial Γ\Gamma-centre of Σ\Sigma.

Tits Centre Conjecture. If Σ\Sigma is a convex non-completely-reducible subcomplex of Δ\Delta, then Σ\Sigma has a simplicial Γ\Gamma-centre.

The conjecture is a central result about invariant convex subcomplexes of spherical buildings and was proved in a series of papers.

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Primary source

Michael Bate, Benjamin Martin and Gerhard Roehrle, “Edifices: Building-like spaces associated to linear algebraic groups”, arXiv:2305.11770 (2023).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1009.5783, arXiv:1005.3212, arXiv:0811.4294.

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