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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480339603321

Titolo

Representation theory, group rings, and coding theory : papers in honor of S.D. Berman (1922-1987) / / M. Isaacs [and five others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1989]

©1989

ISBN

0-8218-7681-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 93

Disciplina

512/.2

Soggetti

Representations of groups

Group rings

Coding theory

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""; ""S.D. Berman (1922�1987): A Biographical Note""; ""Publications of S. D. Berman""; ""Ph.D. Students of S.D. Berman""; ""The S. D. Berman work on coding theory and on theory of threshold functions""; ""Berman's contributions to group representation over fields""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Counting irreducible and indecomposable representations""; ""3. Induced representations""; ""4. Effective constructions of representations""; ""5. The Schur index""; ""S. D. Berman's contribution to the theory of integral representations of finite groups""

""The work of S. D. Berman on infinite abelian group rings""""Berman's work on units in group rings""; ""On p-subgroups of finite symmetric and alternating groups""; ""Parameters of abelian codes in the group algebra KG of G = (a) x (b), aP = bP = 1, p prime, over a finite field K with primitive pth root of unity and related MDS-codes""; ""Locally cyclic modules over a valuation ring""; ""On the modules over a real crossed group algebra""; ""The minimal number of generators of wreath products of nilpotent groups""; ""Torsion free space groups and permutation lattices for finite groups""



""Clifford theory and induction from subgroups""""The isomorphism problem for modular group algebras of groups with large centres""; ""Zero divisors in group rings: Something old, something new""; ""The augmentation quotients of finite abelian p-groups""; ""Free groups in normal subgroups of unit groups and arithmetic groups""; ""On the Bass-Milnor index of abelian p-groups""; ""A remark on algebraic geometric codes""; ""On decomposition of a binomial in a skew polynomial ring""; ""The associated graded algebra of a group algebra""

""On nilpotent and soluble subgroups of linear groups over fields of fractions of enveloping algebras and of group rings, I""""The structure of Go for certain polycyclic group algebras and related algebras""; ""The direct factor problem for modular abelian group algebras""; ""On the isomorphism of the semi-simple group algebras of the primary abelian groups""; ""On the canonical irreducible representations of countable locally finite groups and infinite Frobenius group""; ""Generators of subgroups of U(ZG)""; ""Connectivity of the finite group and generalized characters""