Abstract. We give an algorithm to explicitly compute the largest subtree, in the local Bruhat-Tits tree for PSL 2 (k), whose vertices correspond to orders containing a given suborder H, in terms of a set of generators for H. The shape of this subtree is described, when it is finite, by a set of two invariants. We use our method to provide a full table for the invariants of an order generated by a pair of orthogonal pure quaternions. In a previous work, the first author showed that determining the shape of these local subtrees allows the computation of representation fields, a class field determining the set of isomorphism classes, in a genus O of orders of maximal rank in a fixed central simple algebra, containing an isomorphic copy of H. Some further applications are described here.
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