%0 Journal Article %T The flat closing problem for buildings %A Corina Ciobotaru %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.2140/agt.2014.14.3089 %X Using the notion of a strongly regular hyperbolic automorphism of a locally finite Euclidean building, we prove that any (not necessarily discrete) closed, co-compact subgroup of the type-preserving automorphisms group of a locally finite general non-spherical building contains a compact-by-Z^d subgroup, where d is the dimension of a maximal flat. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5554v2