Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath: Volume 1

This two-volume book contains papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'.

C. M. Campbell (Edited by), E. F. Robertson (Edited by), N. Ruskuc (Edited by), G. C. Smith (Edited by)

9780521655880, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 February 1999

390 pages, 25 b/w illus. 20 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. There are articles based on lecture courses given by five main speakers together with refereed survey and research articles contributed by other conference participants. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important.

1. Radical rings and products of groups W. Amberg and Y. Sysak
2. Homogeneous integral table algebras of degrees two, three and four with a faithful element Z. Arad
3. Statistical methods in algorithms for finite groups L. Babai and R. Beals
4. Totally and mutually permutable products of finite groups A. Ballester-Bolinches, M. D. Perez-Ramos and M. C. Pedraza-Aguilera
5. Ends and algebraic directions of pseudogroups A. Bis
6. On locally nilpotent groups with the minimal condition on centralizers V. Bludov
7. Infinite groups in projective and symplectic geometry F. Bogomolov and L. Katzarkov
8. Non-positive curvature in group theory M. R. Bridson
9. Group theoretic applications of non-commutative toric geometry C. J. B. Brookes
10. Theorems of Kegel-Wielandt type A. Carocca and R. R. Maier
11. Singly generated radicals associated with varieties of groups C. Casacuberta, J. L. Rodriguez and D. Scevenels
12. The word problem in groups of cohomological dimension 2 D. J. Collins and C. F. Miller III
13. Polycyclic-by-finite groups: from affine to polynomial structures K. Dekimpe
14. On groups with rank restrictions on subgroups M. R. Dixon, M. J. Evans and H. Smith
15. On distances of multiplication tables of groups A. Drapal
16. The Dade conjecture for the McLaughlin group G. Entz and H. Pahlings
17. Automorphism groups of certain non-quasiprimitive almost simple graphs X. G. Fang, G. Havas and J. Wang
18. Subgroups of the upper-triangular matrix group with maximal derived length and a minimal number of generators S. P. Glasby
19. On p-pronormal subgroups of finite p-soluble groups M Gomez-Fernandez
20. On the system of defining relations and the Schur multiplier of periodic groups generated by finite automata R. I. Grigorchuk
21. On the dimension of groups acting on buildings J. Harlander
22. Dade's conjecture for the simple Higman–Sims group N. M. Hassan and E. Horvath
23. On the F* - Theorem M. Hertweck and W. Kimmerle
24. Covering numbers for groups M. Herzog
25. Characterizing subnormally closed formations M. C. Hofmann
26. Symmetric words in a free nilpotent group of class 5 W. Holubowski
27. A non-residually finite square of finite groups T. Hsu and D. Wise.

Subject Areas: Groups & group theory [PBG]