Groups St Andrews 1989: Volume 2

by C. M. Campbell, E. F. Robertson

Overview

These two volumes contain selected papers presented at the international conference on group theory held at St. Andrews in 1989. The themes of the conference were combinatorial and computational group theory; leading group theorists, including J.A. Green, N.D. Gupta, O.H. Kegel and J.G. Thompson, gave courses whose content is reproduced here. Also included are refereed papers presented at the meeting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521406697
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/21/1991
Series:	London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series , #160
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 17. A survey of recent results on projective representations of the symmetric groups J. F. Humphreys; 18. Some applications of group theory in combinatorial group theory A. Ivanov and A. Yu. Ol'Shanskii; 19. Rational growth of wreath products D. L. Johnson; 20. The modular group and generalized Farey graphs G. A. Jones, D. Singerman and K. Wicks; 21. On the n-centre of a group L. C. Kappe and M. L. Newell; 22. Existentially closed finitary linear groups O. H. Kegel and D. Schmidt; 23. Permutability and subnormality of subgroups R. R. Maier; 24. Some applications of powerful p-groups A. Mann; 25. Combinatorial aspects of finitely generated virtually free groups T. Müller; 26. Problems in loop theory for group theorists M. Niemenmaa; 27. Sylow theory of CC-groups - a survey J. Otal and J. M. Pena; 28. On the minimal number of generators of certain groups L. Ribes and K. Wong; 29. Lie properties of modular group algebras E. Rips and A. Shalev; 30. Observations on a conjecture of Hans Zassenhaus K. W. Roggenkamp; 31.The Fibonacci groups revisited R. M. Thomas; 32. Galois groups J. G. Thompson; 33. Infinite simple permutation groups - a survey J. K. Truss; 34. Polynomial 2-cycles L. R. Vermiani.

Editorial Reviews

"...will stimulate research in many areas in group theory." Monatshefte fur Math

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