We construct and study a scheme theoretical version of the Tits vectorial building, relate it to filtrations on fiber functors, and use them to clarify various constructions pertaining to Bruhat-Tits buildings, for which we also provide a Tannakian description.
Let G be a connected reductive group defined over Q_p. The set of crystals contained in a given G-isocrystal is viewed from a Bruhat-Tits building-theoretic vantage point as a kind of tubular neighborhood of a skeleton characterized by a minimality property arising from metric space theory.
