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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822595703321

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, ; 524 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Finite groups

Permutation groups

Representations of groups

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.