Groups of Lie Type and their Geometries

Presented here are papers from the 1993 Como meeting on groups of Lie type and their geometries.

William M. Kantor (Edited by), Lino Di Martino (Edited by)

9780521467902, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 January 1995

320 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.443 kg

Presented here are papers from the 1993 Como meeting on groups of Lie type and their geometries. The meeting was attended by many leading figures, as well as younger researchers in this area, and this book brings together many of their excellent contributions. Themes represented here include: subgroups of finite and algebraic groups; buildings and other geometries associated to groups of Lie type or Coxeter groups; generation and applications. This book will be a necessary addition to the library of all researchers in group theory and related areas.

1. Representations of groups on finite simplical complexes Michael Aschbacker
2. Coxeter groups and matroids Alexandre V. Borovik and K. Sian Roberts
3. Finite groups and geometries Francis Buckenhout
4. Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building of type A Donald I. Cartwright
5. Finite simple subgroups of semisimple complex Lie groups - a survey Arjeh M. Cohen and David B. Wales
6. Flag-transitive extensions of buildings of type G2 and C3 Hans Cuypers
7. Disconnected linear groups and restrictions of representations Ben Ford
8. Products of conjugacy classes in algebraic groups and generators of dense subgroups Nikolai L. Gordeev
9. Monodromy groups of polynomials Robert M. Guralnick and Jan Sazl
10. Subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups Martin Lieback and Gary M. Seitz
11. The geometry of traces in Ree octagons H. Van Maldeghem
12. Small rank exceptional Hurwitz groups Gunter Malle
13. The direct sum problem for Chamber systems Antonio Pasini
14. Embeddings and hyperplanes of Lie incidence geometry Ernest E. Shult
15. Intermediate subgroups in Chevalley groups Nikolai Vavilov
16. Economical generating sets for finite simple groups John S. Wilson.

Subject Areas: Groups & group theory [PBG]