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A full account of J. Tits’ “local approach theorem” is given, using the homotopy-theoretic concepts of Chaps. 1 and 9. An additional lemma on covers of truncations due to A. Kasikova is needed for the succeeding chapter.
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J. Tits. A local approach to buildings. In C. Davis, B. Grunbaum, and F. A. Sherk, editors, The Geometric Vein (the Coxeter Festschrift), pages 519–547. Springer, Berlin, 1981.
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Shult, E.E. (2011). 2-Covers of Chamber Systems. In: Points and Lines. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15627-4_10
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