Infinite-dimensional $p$-adic groups, semigroups of double cosets, and inner functions on Bruhat--Tits builldings

We construct $p$-adic analogs of operator colligations and their characteristic functions. Consider a $p$-adic group $G=GL(\alpha+k\infty, Q_p)$,itssubgroup$L=O(k\infty,Z_p)$,andthesubgroup$K=O(\infty,Z_p)$embeddedto$L$diagonally\mathrm{.}Weshowthatdoublecosets$\Gamma= K\setminus G/K$admitastructureofasemigroup,$\Gamma$actsnaturallyin$K$-fixed vectors of unitary representations of $G$. For each double coset we assign a ‘characteristic function’, which sends a certain Bruhat–Tits building to another building (buildings are finite-dimensional); image of the distinguished boundary is contained in the distinguished boundary. The latter building admits a structure of (Nazarov) semigroup, the product in $\mathrm{\Gamma }$ corresponds to a point-wise product of characteristic functions.