The center conjecture for thick spherical buildings.

link: http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2761
Abstract

We prove that a convex subcomplex of a spherical building of type E7 or E8 is
a subbuilding or the group of building automorphisms preserving the subcomplex
has a fixed point in it. Together with previous results of Muehlherr-Tits, and
Leeb and the author, this completes the proof of Tits' Center Conjecture for
thick spherical buildings.