Finite groups--coming of age : proceedings of the Canadian Mathematical Society conference held on June 15-28, 1982, with partial support from the FCAC (Quebec) and the NSERC (Canada) / / John McKay, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480523503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1985]; ©1985
• ISBN: 0-8218-7630-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 45
• Disciplina: 512/.22
• Soggetti: Finite groups; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The Canadian Mathematical Society Conference on Finite Groups--Coming of Age was held at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec on June 15-28, 1982, with partial support from FCAC (Quebec) and NSERC (Canada)"--Title page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Diagram geometries for sporadic groups""; ""Symmetric representations and linear groups""; ""Rationality of certain zeta functions associated with modular representation theory""; ""Computing the character table of a Lie group""; ""Multiplicative products of η-functions""; ""An E8 approach to F1""; ""The Monster and its nonassociative algebra""; ""Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups""; ""Group representations and the resolution of rational double points""; ""M24 and certain automorphic forms""; ""Generalized root systems and characters""""The uniqueness of the Fischer-Griess Monster""; ""Efficiency of finite simple groups and their covering groups""; ""Buildings and sporadic groups""; ""On the Head characters of the Monster simple group""; ""Residual geometries for sporadic and classical groups - A survey""; ""Some consequences of the elementary relations in SLn""