Distinction of representations via Bruhat-Tits buildings of p-adic groups

Abstract

Introductory and pedagogical treatmeant of the article : P. Broussous "Distinction of the Steinberg representation", with an appendix by Fran\c{c}ois Court\`es, IMRN 2014, no 11, 3140-3157. To appear in Proceedings of Chaire Jean Morlet, Dipendra Prasad, Volker Heiermann Ed. 2017. Contains modified and simplified proofs of loc. cit. This article is written in memory of Fran\c{c}ois Court\`es who passed away in september 2016.Comment: 33 pages, 4 figure