The spherical-building conjecture for smooth-group actions on reductive groups

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Suppose that (G~ka,Γka)(\widetilde G_{k^{\mathrm a}},\Gamma_{k^{\mathrm a}}) is quasisemisimple. Write GredG^{\mathrm{red}} for the maximal pseudo-reductive quotient of GG, which is reductive by the cited theorem. There are a unique subset S(G)red\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}} of S(Gred)\mathscr{S}(G^{\mathrm{red}}) and a map

i ⁣:S(G)redS(G~)i\colon\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}}\longrightarrow\mathscr{S}(\widetilde G)

with the following properties. For every split torus SS in GredG^{\mathrm{red}}, the subset S(S)S(G)red\mathscr{S}(S)\cap\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}} consists precisely of the rays through elements

λX(S)ZR{0}\lambda\in {\mathbf X}_*(S)\otimes_{\mathbb Z}\mathbb R\setminus\{0\}

such that PG(λ)P_G(\lambda) contains the unipotent radical of GG, and the natural diagram relating S(S)\mathscr{S}(S), S(G~)\mathscr{S}(\widetilde G)), S(S)S(G)red\mathscr{S}(S)\cap\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}}, and S(G)red\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}} commutes. Spherical-building conjecture. The map ii is a bijection from S(G)red\mathscr{S}(G)^{\mathrm{red}} onto

S(G~)S(G~ks)Γ(ks).\mathscr{S}(\widetilde G)\cap\mathscr{S}(\widetilde G_{k^{\mathrm s}})^{\Gamma(k^{\mathrm s})}.

The existence of the set and map is described as accessible, with uniqueness then immediate; the claimed surjectivity is left for future work. Thus the bijectivity assertion is open in the source.

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Primary source

Jeffrey D. Adler, Joshua M. Lansky and Loren Spice, “On smooth-group actions on reductive groups and spherical buildings”, arXiv:2503.00183 (2025).

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