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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479916503321

Titolo

Character theory of finite groups : conference in honor of I. Martin Isaacs, June 3-5, 2009, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain / / Mark L. Lewis [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-8218-8203-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics ; ; volume 524

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Finite groups

Permutation groups

Representations of groups

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Speakers""; ""On character tables and abstract structure of finite groups""; ""Large transitive groups with many elements having fixed points""; ""Vertex subgroups and vertex pairs in solvable groups""; ""Threads through group theory""; ""Tate's theorem, and other oddities, via transfer""; ""A p-group with no normal large abelian subgroup""; ""General measuring arguments for finite permutation groups""; ""Commutators and wreath products""; ""Gaps in character degrees for groups with many conjugacy classes""; ""The number of subgroups of metacyclic groups""

""Problems in character theory""""Eigenvalues of Cartan matrices of blocks in finite groups""; ""Character theory and group rings""; ""Lifting theorems and applications to group algebras""; ""Character degrees of normally monomial maximal class 5-groups""; ""Dual pairs of finite classical groups in cross characteristic""