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Record Nr.

UNINA9911001470303321

Autore

De Franceschi Giovanni

Titolo

Conjugacy in Finite Classical Groups / / by Giovanni De Franceschi, Martin W. Liebeck, Eamonn A. O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-86461-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 176 p.)

Collana

Springer Monographs in Mathematics, , 2196-9922

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Group theory

Group Theory and Generalizations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

- 1. Introduction and Background -- 2. General and Special Linear Groups -- 3. Preliminaries on Classical Groups -- 4. Unipotent Classes in Good Characteristic -- 5. Unipotent Classes in Bad Characteristic -- 6. Semisimple Classes -- 7. General Conjugacy Classes.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the theory of conjugacy in finite classical groups. Given such a classical group G, the three fundamental problems considered are the following: to list a representative for each conjugacy class of G; to describe the centralizer of each representative, by giving its group structure and a generating set; and to solve the conjugacy problem in G—namely, given two elements of G, establish whether they are conjugate, and if so, find a conjugating element. The book presents comprehensive theoretical solutions to all three problems, and uses these solutions to formulate practical algorithms. In parallel to the theoretical work, implementations of these algorithms have been developed in Magma. These form a critical component of various general algorithms in computational group theory—for example, computing character tables and solving conjugacy problems in arbitrary finite groups.