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Record Nr.

UNISA996466621303316

Titolo

Notes on infinite permutation groups. / / M. Bhattacharjee [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

3-540-49813-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 206 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 1698

Classificazione

20B07

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Mathematics

Group theory

Permutation groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Some group theory -- Groups acting on sets -- Transitivity -- Primitivity -- Suborbits and orbitals -- More about symmetric groups -- Linear groups -- Wreath products -- Rational numbers -- Jordan groups -- Examples of Jordan groups -- Relations related to betweenness -- Classification theorems -- Homogeneous structures -- The Hrushovski construction -- Applications and open questions.

Sommario/riassunto

The book, based on a course of lectures by the authors at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, covers aspects of infinite permutation groups theory and some related model-theoretic constructions. There is basic background in both group theory and the necessary model theory, and the following topics are covered: transitivity and primitivity; symmetric groups and general linear groups; wreatch products; automorphism groups of various treelike objects; model-theoretic constructions for building structures with rich automorphism groups, the structure and classification of infinite primitive Jordan groups (surveyed); applications and open problems. With many examples and exercises, the book is intended primarily for a beginning graduate student in group theory.