We will give a brief introduction to the theory of buildings and present their geometric, algebraic and arithmetic aspects. In particular, we present explicit constructions of infinite families of quaternionic cube complexes, covered by buildings. We will introduce new connections of geometric group theory and theoretical physics by using quaternionic lattices to find new infinite families of Drinfeld-Manin solutions of Yang-Baxter equations.
This work relates to this arXiv paper.
This video is part of the New York Group Theory Cooperative‘s group theory seminar series.
