Author: Aleksandr Anatolievich Ivanov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521623499
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The second in a two-volume set, for researchers into finite groups, geometry and algebraic combinatorics.
Geometry of Sporadic Groups: Volume 2, Representations and Amalgams
Author: Aleksandr Anatolievich Ivanov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521623499
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The second in a two-volume set, for researchers into finite groups, geometry and algebraic combinatorics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521623499
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The second in a two-volume set, for researchers into finite groups, geometry and algebraic combinatorics.
Geometry of Sporadic Groups: Volume 1, Petersen and Tilde Geometries
Author: A. A. Ivanov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521413621
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Important monograph on finite group theory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521413621
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Important monograph on finite group theory.
Twelve Sporadic Groups
Author: Robert L. Jr. Griess
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540627784
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The 20 sporadics involved in the Monster, the largest sporadic group, constitute the Happy Family. This book is a leisurely and rigorous study of two of their three generations. The level is suitable for graduate students with little background in general finite group theory, established mathematicians and mathematical physicists.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540627784
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The 20 sporadics involved in the Monster, the largest sporadic group, constitute the Happy Family. This book is a leisurely and rigorous study of two of their three generations. The level is suitable for graduate students with little background in general finite group theory, established mathematicians and mathematical physicists.
Sporadic Groups
Author: Michael Aschbacher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521420495
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Sporadic Groups is the first step in a programme to provide a uniform, self-contained treatment of the foundational material on the sporadic finite simple groups. The classification of the finite simple groups is one of the premier achievements of modern mathematics. The classification demonstrates that each finite simple group is either a finite analogue of a simple Lie group or one of 26 pathological sporadic groups. Sporadic Groups provides for the first time a self-contained treatment of the foundations of the theory of sporadic groups accessible to mathematicians with a basic background in finite groups such as in the author's text Finite Group Theory. Introductory material useful for studying the sporadics, such as a discussion of large extraspecial 2-subgroups and Tits' coset geometries, opens the book. A construction of the Mathieu groups as the automorphism groups of Steiner systems follows. The Golay and Todd modules, and the 2-local geometry for M24 are discussed. This is followed by the standard construction of Conway of the Leech lattice and the Conway group. The Monster is constructed as the automorphism group of the Griess algebra using some of the best features of the approaches of Griess, Conway, and Tits, plus a few new wrinkles. Researchers in finite group theory will find this text invaluable. The subjects treated will interest combinatorists, number theorists, and conformal field theorists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521420495
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Sporadic Groups is the first step in a programme to provide a uniform, self-contained treatment of the foundational material on the sporadic finite simple groups. The classification of the finite simple groups is one of the premier achievements of modern mathematics. The classification demonstrates that each finite simple group is either a finite analogue of a simple Lie group or one of 26 pathological sporadic groups. Sporadic Groups provides for the first time a self-contained treatment of the foundations of the theory of sporadic groups accessible to mathematicians with a basic background in finite groups such as in the author's text Finite Group Theory. Introductory material useful for studying the sporadics, such as a discussion of large extraspecial 2-subgroups and Tits' coset geometries, opens the book. A construction of the Mathieu groups as the automorphism groups of Steiner systems follows. The Golay and Todd modules, and the 2-local geometry for M24 are discussed. This is followed by the standard construction of Conway of the Leech lattice and the Conway group. The Monster is constructed as the automorphism group of the Griess algebra using some of the best features of the approaches of Griess, Conway, and Tits, plus a few new wrinkles. Researchers in finite group theory will find this text invaluable. The subjects treated will interest combinatorists, number theorists, and conformal field theorists.
Classifying Spaces of Sporadic Groups
Author: David J. Benson
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821844741
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
For each of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, the authors construct a 2-completed classifying space using a homotopy decomposition in terms of classifying spaces of suitable 2-local subgroups. This construction leads to an additive decomposition of the mod 2 group cohomology.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821844741
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
For each of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, the authors construct a 2-completed classifying space using a homotopy decomposition in terms of classifying spaces of suitable 2-local subgroups. This construction leads to an additive decomposition of the mod 2 group cohomology.
Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry
Author: Martin W. Liebeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521406854
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This volume contains a collection of papers on the subject of the classification of finite simple groups.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521406854
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This volume contains a collection of papers on the subject of the classification of finite simple groups.
Symmetric Generation of Groups
Author: Robert Curtis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185721X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Comprehensive text which develops the notion of symmetric generation and applies the technique to sporadic simple groups.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185721X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Comprehensive text which develops the notion of symmetric generation and applies the technique to sporadic simple groups.
Finite Simple Groups
Author: Daniel Gorenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468484974
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In February 1981, the classification of the finite simple groups (Dl)* was completed,t. * representing one of the most remarkable achievements in the history or mathematics. Involving the combined efforts of several hundred mathematicians from around the world over a period of 30 years, the full proof covered something between 5,000 and 10,000 journal pages, spread over 300 to 500 individual papers. The single result that, more than any other, opened up the field and foreshadowed the vastness of the full classification proof was the celebrated theorem of Walter Feit and John Thompson in 1962, which stated that every finite group of odd order (D2) is solvable (D3)-a statement expressi ble in a single line, yet its proof required a full 255-page issue of the Pacific 10urnal of Mathematics [93]. Soon thereafter, in 1965, came the first new sporadic simple group in over 100 years, the Zvonimir Janko group 1 , to further stimulate the 1 'To make the book as self-contained as possible. we are including definitions of various terms as they occur in the text. However. in order not to disrupt the continuity of the discussion. we have placed them at the end of the Introduction. We denote these definitions by (DI). (D2), (D3). etc.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468484974
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In February 1981, the classification of the finite simple groups (Dl)* was completed,t. * representing one of the most remarkable achievements in the history or mathematics. Involving the combined efforts of several hundred mathematicians from around the world over a period of 30 years, the full proof covered something between 5,000 and 10,000 journal pages, spread over 300 to 500 individual papers. The single result that, more than any other, opened up the field and foreshadowed the vastness of the full classification proof was the celebrated theorem of Walter Feit and John Thompson in 1962, which stated that every finite group of odd order (D2) is solvable (D3)-a statement expressi ble in a single line, yet its proof required a full 255-page issue of the Pacific 10urnal of Mathematics [93]. Soon thereafter, in 1965, came the first new sporadic simple group in over 100 years, the Zvonimir Janko group 1 , to further stimulate the 1 'To make the book as self-contained as possible. we are including definitions of various terms as they occur in the text. However. in order not to disrupt the continuity of the discussion. we have placed them at the end of the Introduction. We denote these definitions by (DI). (D2), (D3). etc.
Symmetry and the Monster
Author: Mark Ronan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192807234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In an exciting, fast-paced historical narrative ranging across two centuries, Ronan takes readers on an exhilarating tour of this final mathematical quest to understand symmetry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192807234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In an exciting, fast-paced historical narrative ranging across two centuries, Ronan takes readers on an exhilarating tour of this final mathematical quest to understand symmetry.
Groups and Geometries
Author: Lino Di Martino
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034888198
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
On September 1-7, 1996 a conference on Groups and Geometries took place in lovely Siena, Italy. It brought together experts and interested mathematicians from numerous countries. The scientific program centered around invited exposi tory lectures; there also were shorter research announcements, including talks by younger researchers. The conference concerned a broad range of topics in group theory and geometry, with emphasis on recent results and open problems. Special attention was drawn to the interplay between group-theoretic methods and geometric and combinatorial ones. Expanded versions of many of the talks appear in these Proceedings. This volume is intended to provide a stimulating collection of themes for a broad range of algebraists and geometers. Among those themes, represented within the conference or these Proceedings, are aspects of the following: 1. the classification of finite simple groups, 2. the structure and properties of groups of Lie type over finite and algebraically closed fields of finite characteristic, 3. buildings, and the geometry of projective and polar spaces, and 4. geometries of sporadic simple groups. We are grateful to the authors for their efforts in providing us with manuscripts in LaTeX. Barbara Priwitzer and Thomas Hintermann, Mathematics Editors of Birkhauser, have been very helpful and supportive throughout the preparation of this volume.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034888198
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
On September 1-7, 1996 a conference on Groups and Geometries took place in lovely Siena, Italy. It brought together experts and interested mathematicians from numerous countries. The scientific program centered around invited exposi tory lectures; there also were shorter research announcements, including talks by younger researchers. The conference concerned a broad range of topics in group theory and geometry, with emphasis on recent results and open problems. Special attention was drawn to the interplay between group-theoretic methods and geometric and combinatorial ones. Expanded versions of many of the talks appear in these Proceedings. This volume is intended to provide a stimulating collection of themes for a broad range of algebraists and geometers. Among those themes, represented within the conference or these Proceedings, are aspects of the following: 1. the classification of finite simple groups, 2. the structure and properties of groups of Lie type over finite and algebraically closed fields of finite characteristic, 3. buildings, and the geometry of projective and polar spaces, and 4. geometries of sporadic simple groups. We are grateful to the authors for their efforts in providing us with manuscripts in LaTeX. Barbara Priwitzer and Thomas Hintermann, Mathematics Editors of Birkhauser, have been very helpful and supportive throughout the preparation of this volume.