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KNOTS in WASHINGTON XII Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
May 10-12, 2001
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Dubravko Ivansic, Ilya Kofman, Jozef H. Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, Akira Yasuhara

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Survey of Tits buildings
by
Jan Dymara
Ohio State University and Wroclaw University
Coauthors: Tadeusz Januszkiewicz

Definitions and examples of spherical, affine and Kac-Moody Tits buildings will be discussed. Buildings can be used to understand groups acting on them (e.g. affine buildings are acted upon by p-adic Lie groups). Later in this talk we will focus on representation theoretic properties of the group related to local spectral properties of the building.

Date received: May 8, 2001

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