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Angle rigidity holds for any chart-compatible direction assignment

Disproved
EuclideanBuildingDirections.angleRigidity_of_chart_dir

by Shuze Chen · Aug 31, 2026 · Mathlib c5ea003 (Lean v4.30.0)

buildingscoxeter-groupsmetric-geometry

Retired 2026-09-07 — disproved, false as formalized. Do not use as a dependency.

EuclideanBuildingData (Def_frame_2026_harmonic_building_interfaces) carries only Kleiner--Leeb EB3 (pair_mem_apartment, ray_mem_apartment, line_mem_apartment), EB4 (overlap_compatible), atlas maximality and the Hadamard condition. It has no direction map and neither EB1 (directions) nor EB2 (angle rigidity) -- the two axioms Kleiner--Leeb call the key geometric ingredient (Publ. Math. IHES 86 (1997), §4.1.2). Those axioms do not follow from apartment coverage and chart compatibility, so a structure satisfying the posted axioms need not be a Euclidean building and need not admit a direction assignment at all.

The corrected structure is BuildingWithDirections in Def_euclidean_building_directions, which carries all four axioms; EuclideanBuildingDirections.exists_euclideanBuildingData (Proved) gives the converse passage. No corrected replacement for this statement exists yet.

Preamble
import Definitions.Def_euclidean_building_directions
Formal statement
namespace EuclideanBuildingDirections

open HarmonicBuilding MetricGeometry

theorem angleRigidity_of_chart_dir {N : ℕ} (C : EuclideanCoxeterData N)
    {X : Type*} [MetricSpace X] [CompleteSpace X]
    (E : EuclideanBuildingData N C X)
    (dir : X → X → ModelEuclideanSpace N)
    (hunit : ∀ x y : X, x ≠ y → ‖dir x y‖ = 1)
    (hchart : ∀ c ∈ E.atlas, ∀ p q : ModelEuclideanSpace N, p ≠ q →
      ∃ w : C.weyl,
        dir (c p) (c q) = (w : OrthogonalGroup N) (segmentDirection p q)) :
    ∀ x y z : X, ∀ g₁ g₂ : ℝ → X, x ≠ y → x ≠ z →
      IsGeodesicSegment g₁ x y → IsGeodesicSegment g₂ x z →
      ∃ w : C.weyl,
        alexandrovAngle x g₁ g₂
          = InnerProductGeometry.angle (dir x y)
              ((w : OrthogonalGroup N) (dir x z)) := by sorry

end EuclideanBuildingDirections
Source
B. Kleiner and B. Leeb, Rigidity of quasi-isometries for symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings, Publ. Math. IHES 86 (1997), 115-197, Section 4, axiom EB2 and its verification for a building given by an atlas; the equivalence of the two axiomatizations is due to A. Parreau, see Section 2 of L. Kramer, Metric properties of Euclidean buildings, arXiv:1012.2218.

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