The 2-adic affine building of type Ã2 and its finite projections

AbstractA certain “free” group U is constructed that is generated by three elements of order 3 which pairwise generate a Frobenius group of order 21 and it is shown that U operates regularly on the affine building of type Ã2 over the field of 2-adic numbers. As a result an infinite series of finite rank 3 geometries is obtained whose rank 2 residues are projective planes of order 2, and which possess a regular automorphism group isomorphic to SL3(p) or SU3(p) for some prime p