We relate some features of Bruhat-Tits buildings and their compactifications to tropical geometry. If G is a semisimple group over a suitable non-Archimedean field, the stabilizers of points in the Bruhat-Tits building of G and in some of its compactifications are described by tropical linear algebra. The compactifications we consider arise from algebraic representations of G. We show that the fan which is used to compactify an apartment in this theory is given by the weight polytope of the representation and that it is related to the tropicalization of the hypersurface given by the character of the representation.
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author = {Annette Werner},
title = {A tropical view on Bruhat-Tits buildings and their compactifications},
journal = {Open Mathematics},
volume = {9},
year = {2011},
pages = {390-402},
zbl = {1227.20031},
language = {en},
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Annette Werner. A tropical view on Bruhat-Tits buildings and their compactifications. Open Mathematics, Tome 9 (2011) pp. 390-402. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_2478_s11533-011-0005-3/
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