nLab Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits (1930-2021)

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Selected writings

Proving what came to be calles the Tits alternative:

• Jacques Tits: Free subgroups in linear groups, Journal of Algebra 20 2 (1972) 250–270 [doi:10.1016/0021-8693(72)90058-0]

Introducing the notion of Bruhat-Tits buildings:

• François Bruhat, Jacques Tits: Groupes Réductifs Sur Un Corps Local, Publications Mathématiques de l’Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 41 (1972) 5–251 [doi:10.1007/BF02715544]

• Jacques Tits: Buildings of Spherical Type and Finite BN-Pairs, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 386, Springer (1974) [doi:10.1007/978-3-540-38349-9]

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