What is … a Bruhat-Tits tree?

This page hosts information on Inder's talk "What is … a Bruhat-Tits tree?" at the "What is …?" seminar. The talk will take place on Friday, November 9, 4pm at HU, RUD 25 1.023.

Abstract

In this talk I will define a Bruhat-Tits tree and describe the construction of the tree associated to PGL(2,F) for F a local field. If time permits, I will also discuss some applications of the tree in representation theory.

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