The strong Tits Centre Conjecture for spherical edifices

Let GG be a connected reductive group over a field kk, let K{\mathbb K} be the relevant ordered field, and let ΔG(K)\Delta_G({\mathbb K}) be its spherical edifice. A closed convex subset Σ\Sigma is completely reducible if every xΣx\in\Sigma has an opposite in Σ\Sigma. If ΓAut(ΔG(K))\Gamma\subseteq\operatorname{Aut}(\Delta_G({\mathbb K})) stabilises Σ\Sigma, a point xΣx\in\Sigma is a Γ\Gamma-centre when x0x\neq0 and the simplex σx\sigma_x is fixed by Γ\Gamma; it is unopposed when it has no opposite in Σ\Sigma.

Strong Tits Centre Conjecture. If Σ\Sigma is a closed convex non-completely-reducible subset of ΔG(K)\Delta_G({\mathbb K}), then Σ\Sigma has an unopposed Γ\Gamma-centre.

This is a point-edifice analogue of the Tits Centre Conjecture and is weaker than the version asserting a Γ\Gamma-fixed point, which the source notes is false without an isometric-action hypothesis. Its general status is not specified in the supplied text.

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

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