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Buildings, Finite Geometries and Groups

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This survey paper provides an overview of some aspects of the theory buildings in connection with geometric and analytic group theory.

Subject Classifications: AMS classification (2000): 20E42, 51E24, 20F32, 20F67, 20F69, 22F, 22F10, 22F50

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Rémy, B. (2012). Buildings and Kac-Moody Groups. In: Sastry, N. (eds) Buildings, Finite Geometries and Groups. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0709-6_11

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