Groups '93 Galway/St Andrews: Volume 1

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups 1993 Galway/St Andrews'

C. M. Campbell (Author), E. F. Robertson (Author), T. C. Hurley (Author), S. J. Tobin (Author), J. Ward (Author)

9780521477499, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 March 1995

320 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.456 kg

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups 1993 Galway/St Andrews' which was held at University College Galway in August 1993. The wealth and diversity of group theory is represented in these two volumes. Five main lecture courses were given at the conference. These were 'Geometry, Steinberg representations and complexity' by J. L. Alperin (Chicago), 'Rickard equivalences and block theory' by M. Broué (ENS, Paris), 'Cohomological finiteness conditions' by P. H. Kropholler (QMW, London), 'Counting finite index subgroups' by A. Lubotzky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), 'Lie methods in group theory' by E. I. Zel'manov (University of Wisconsin at Madison). Articles based on their lectures, in one case co-authored, form a substantial part of the Proceedings. Another main feature of the conference was a GAP workshop jointly run by J. Neubüser and M. Schönert (RWTH, Aachen). Two articles by Professor Neubüser, one co-authored, appear in the Proceedings. The other articles in the two volumes comprise both refereed survey and research articles contributed by other conference participants. As with the Proceedings of the earlier 'Groups-St Andrews' conferences it is hoped that the articles in these Proceedings will, with their many references, prove valuable both to experienced researchers and also to new postgraduates interested in group theory.

1. Geometry, Steinberg representations and complexity J. L. Alperin and G. Mason
2. The structure of metabelian finite groups Z. Arad, E. Fisman and M. Muzychuk
3. Table algebras of extended Gagola-type and applications to finite group theory Z. Arad, E. Fisman and C. M. Scoppola
4. On the saturation of formations of finite groups A. Ballester-Bolinches and L. M. Ezquerro
5. Locally constructed formations of finite groups A. Ballester-Bolinches and C. Juan-Martinez
6. Reflections on virtually one-relator groups K. Bencsath and B. Fine
7. Rickard equivalences and block theory M. Broué
8. Computing the conjugacy classes of elements of a finite group G. Butler
9. Quotient categories of modules over group algebras J. F. Carlson
10. Weak chain conditions for non-almost normal subgroups G. Cutolo and L. A. Kurdachenko
11. Computation of the character table of affine groups using Fischer matrices M. R. Darafsheh and A. Iranmanesh
12. The lattice of compact representations of an infinite group D. Dikranjan
13. Automorphisms of nilpotent and related groups M. R. Dixon
14. Generation of orthogonal groups over finite fields A. G. Earnest
15. The structure of certain Coxeter groups V. Felsch, D. L. Johnson, J. Neubüser and S. V. Tsaranov
16. n-free groups and questions about universally free groups B. Fine, A. M. Gaglione, G. Rosenberger and D. Spellman
17. Classification of all generating pairs of two generator Fuchsian groups B. Fine and G. Rosenberger
18. Parametric words and models of the elementary theory of non-abelian free groups A. M. Gaglione and D. Spellman
19. The groups G(n,l) as fundamental groups of Seifert fibered homology L. Grasselli
20. Spheres C. K. Gupta and V. Shpilrain
21. Lifting automorphisms : a survey P. Z. Hermann
22. (MI)-groups acting uniserially on a normal subgroup E. Jespers, M. M. Parmenter and P. F. Smith
23. Revisiting a theorem of Higman P. H. Kropholler
24. Cohomological finiteness conditions.

Subject Areas: Groups & group theory [PBG]