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math.GR2024

Lattice envelopes of right-angled Artin groups

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Tom De Medts

Let be a finite simplicial graph with at least two vertices, and let be the associated right-angled Artin group. We describe a locally compact group contain…

math.GR2023

Matsuo algebras in characteristic 2

Tom De Medts, Mathias Stout

We extend the theory of Matsuo algebras, which are certain non-associative algebras related to 3-transposition groups, to characteristic 2. Instead of idempotent elements associate…

math.GR2022

Restricted universal groups for right-angled buildings

Jens Bossaert, Tom De Medts

In 2000, Marc Burger and Shahar Mozes introduced universal groups acting on trees. Such groups provide interesting examples of totally disconnected locally compact groups. Intuitiv…

math.GR2022

City products of right-angled buildings and their universal groups

Jens Bossaert, Tom De Medts

We introduce the notion of city products of right-angled buildings that produces a new right-angled building out of smaller ones. More precisely, if is a right-angled Coxeter d…

math.GR2017

Open subgroups of the automorphism group of a right-angled building

Tom De Medts, Ana C. Silva

We study the group of type-preserving automorphisms of a right-angled building, in particular when the building is locally finite. Our aim is to characterize the proper open subgro…

math.GR2017★ 1 cited

Tits Endomorphisms and Buildings of Type

Tom De Medts, Yoav Segev, Richard M. Weiss

The fixed point building of a polarity of a Moufang quadrangle of type is a Moufang set, as is the fixed point building of a semi-linear automorphism of order of a Moufan…

math.GR2016

Local Moufang sets and local Jordan pairs

Tom De Medts, Erik Rijcken

In this paper, we extend the theory of special local Moufang sets. We construct a local Moufang set from every local Jordan pair, and we show that every local Moufang set satisfyin…

math.GR2016

Universal groups for right-angled buildings

Tom De Medts, Ana C. Silva, Koen Struyve

In 2000, M. Burger and S. Mozes introduced universal groups acting on trees with a prescribed local action. We generalize this concept to groups acting on right-angled buildings. W…

math.GR2015★ 1 cited

Local Moufang sets and PSL_2 over a local ring

Tom De Medts, Erik Rijcken

We introduce local Moufang sets as a generalization of Moufang sets. We present a method to construct local Moufang sets from only one root group and one permutation. We use this t…

math.GR2013

Moufang sets of mixed type F4

Elizabeth Callens, Tom De Medts

Moufang sets were introduced by Jacques Tits in order to understand isotropic linear algebraic groups of relative rank one, but the notion is more general. We describe a new class…

math.GR2012★ 7 cited

Trees, contraction groups, and Moufang sets

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Tom De Medts

We study closed subgroups of the automorphism group of a locally finite tree acting doubly transitively on the boundary. We show that if the stabiliser of some end is metab…

math.GR2010★ 29 cited

Simple locally compact groups acting on trees and their germs of automorphisms

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Tom De Medts

Automorphism groups of locally finite trees provide a large class of examples of simple totally disconnected locally compact groups. It is desirable to understand the connections b…