Orientation on the Bruhat-Tits tree #
The Bruhat-Tits tree admits a natural orientation, by which we mean a partition of the vertices in odd and even, which can be interpreted as a direction on the edges.
We say an R-lattice L is even if the additive valuation of the determinant of an
R-basis of L is even. This is independent of the choice of the
basis (see BruhatTits.Lattice.zaddVal_det_eq_of_basis) and invariant under homothety
(see BruhatTits.Lattice.isEven_smul_of_isEven). A vertex is then even if a (equivalently all)
representative is even.
Finally, we define a ±1-valued weight function on the vertices by sending even vertices
to 1 and odd vertices to -1. This will be later used to define the harmonic co-chains on the
Bruhat-Tits tree (see BruhatTits.Harmonic.Application).
SL₂ action #
While the GL₂ action is transitive, the SL₂ action preserves the orientation, i.e. it preserves
evenness of vertices (see BruhatTits.isEven_specialLinearGroup_smul_iff).
The valuation associated to a lattice is the additive valuation of the determinant of a
basis. This is independent of the choice of a basis
(see BruhatTits.Lattice.zaddVal_det_eq_of_basis), but not invariant under homothety.
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A lattice is called even, if the determinant of the matrix spanned by a basis has even additive valuation.
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A lattice is called odd, if the determinant of the matrix spanned by a basis has odd additive valuation.
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A vertex ⟦L⟧ is called even, if L is even. This is independent of the choice of L.
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A vertex ⟦L⟧ is called odd, if L is odd. This is independent of the choice of L.
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A canonical weight function on the vertices of the BT tree:
Even vertices have weight 1 and odd vertices have weight -1.
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- BruhatTits.BTweight A x = if BruhatTits.IsEven x then 1 else -1