Download or read book A Compactification of the Bruhat-Tits Building written by Erasmus Landvogt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this work is the definition of the polyhedral compactification of the Bruhat-Tits building of a reductive group over a local field. In addition, an explicit description of the boundary is given. In order to make this work as self-contained as possible and also accessible to non-experts in Bruhat-Tits theory, the construction of the Bruhat-Tits building itself is given completely.