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Some constructions of new groups and buildings

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Speaker: 
Kathrin Tent
Affiliation: 
Bielefeld
Date: 
Tue, 2010-04-20 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

We give model theoretic constructions for a zoo of examples and counterexamples: we build groups and generalized n-gons satisfying strong transitivity properties. An ultraproduct of the latter yields a forest from which we obtain twin trees and homogeneous 1-round CAT(1)-spaces.

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