Group Theory: Proceedings of the Singapore Group Theory Conference held at the National University of Singapore, June 8–19, 1987

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Group Theory

Proceedings of the Singapore Group Theory Conference held at the National University of Singapore, June 8–19, 1987

Edited by: Kai N. Cheng and Yu K. Leong

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1989

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Kai Nah Cheng and Yu Kiang Leong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Organising Committee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Pictures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XIII
Workshop lectures
Four lectures on Sylow theory in locally finite groups O.H. Kegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Cohomology in infinite group theory Derek J. S. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Invited lectures
Upper and lower bounds for nilpotency classes of Lie algebras with Engel conditions S.I. Adian, A.A. Razborov and N.N. Repin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Recent progress on rewritability in groups Russell D. Blyth and Derek J.S. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Some finite groups with nontrivial centers which are Galois groups Walter Feit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Actions on lower central factors of free groups B. Hartley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Some countably free groups Graham Higman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Automorphism groups of DRADs Noboru Ito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Invariant lattices in Lie algebras and their automorphism groups A.I. Kostrikin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Yet more on finite groups with few defining relations In memoriam K.A. Hirsch B.H. Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Elementary proof of the simplicity of sporadic groups Michio Suzuki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
Fricke, free groups and SL₂ J.G. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Hecke operators and non congruence subgroups J.G. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
Contributed papers
Soluble groups which are the product of a nilpotent and a polycyclic subgroup Bernhard Amberg, Silvana Franciosi and Francesco de Giovanni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
The tame range of automorphism groups and GL_n S. Bachmuth and H. Y. Mochizuki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Universal groups, binate groups and acyclicity A.J. Berrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Residual solvability of the unit groups of group algebras Ashwani K. Bhandari and I.B.S. Passi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Stabilisers of injective modules over nilpotent groups C.J.B. Brookes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Fitting classes after Dark R.A. Bryce, John Cossey and E.A. Ormerod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
On groups related to Fibonacci groups C.M. Campbell, E.F. Robertson and R.M. Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
On the Chern classes of representations of the symmetric groups Humberto Cárdenas and Emilio Lluis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Solutions of equations in free groups Leo P. Comerford and Charles C. Edmunds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Block covers and module covers of finite groups Fan Yun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
A theorem in the commutator calculus Anthony M. Gaglione and Hermann V. Waldinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Topological methods in equivariant cohomology J.P.C. Greenlees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Solvable subgroups of free products of profinite groups Wolfgang Herfort and Luis Ribes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Non-cancellation and non-abelian tensor squares D. L. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
A class of SQ-Universal groups Frank Levin and Gerhard Rosenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Action tables for the Fischer group F₂₂ Jamshid Moori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
A CAYLEY library for the groups of order dividing 128 M.F. Newman and E.A. O'Brien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	437
On octic field extensions and a problem in group theory Cheryl E. Praeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Geometric invariants and HNN-extensions Burkhardt Renz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	465
Groups with permutable subgroup products A.H. Rhemtulla and A.R. Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
Symmetric presentations E.F. Robertson and C.M. Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
On the periodicity of group operations Dedicated to Professor Elmar Thoma on the occasion of his 60th birthday Günter Schlichting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	507
An application of groups to the topology design of connection machines S. C. Shee and H. H. Teh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	519
A new characterization of the sporadic simple groups Shi Wujie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
Equicentralizer subgroups of sporadic simple groups Wang Efang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	541
Some transfer theorems for finite groups Tomoyuki Yoshida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	553
Appendices
List of participants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	569
List of lectures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	581
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	587

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