Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4584938 Journal of Algebra 2014 22 Pages PDF
Abstract
We give a method to describe the quotient of the local Bruhat-Tits tree TP for PGL2(K), where K is a global function field, by certain subgroups of PGL2(K) of arithmetical significance. In particular, we can compute the quotient of TP by an arithmetic subgroup PGL2(A), where A=AP is the ring of functions that are regular outside P, recursively for a place P of any degree, when K is a rational function field. We achieve this by proving that the infinite matrices whose coordinates are the numbers of neighbors of a vertex in TP corresponding to orders in a fixed isomorphism class commute for different places P, using tools from the theory of representations of orders. The latter result holds for every global function field K.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory
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