Groups St Andrews 1989: Volume 2

These volumes will be essential references for research and postgraduate mathematicians whose work involves group theory.

C. M. Campbell (Edited by), E. F. Robertson (Edited by)

9780521406697, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 March 1991

260 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.412 kg

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

These volumes contain selected papers presented at the international conference on group theory held in St Andrews in 1989. The themes of the conference were combinatorial and computational group theory; four leading group theorists (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. The many articles with their wealth of references demonstrate the richness and vitality of modern group theory and its varied connections with other areas of mathematics. These will be essential references for research and postgraduate mathematicians whose work involves group theory.

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.

Subject Areas: Groups & group theory [PBG]