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Publications and source records attributed to Terence Joseph Kivran-Swaine.
For F, a finite extension of Q2, and E a quadratic extension of F, I compute the stabilizer in SL(2,F} of a point in the Bruhat-Tits tree of SL(2,E).
For F an algebraic extension of Q2, the conjugacy classes of invertible, 2-by-2, trace-zero matrices under the action of G := SL2(F) are analyzed relative to the quadratic extension that splits the respective characteristic polynomial. The stabilizer in G of each such matrix is computed as a stabilizer of a simple, Galois invariant path in the Bruhat-Tits Tree of G.