Groups, difference sets, and the monster [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of a special research quarter at the Ohio State University, spring 1993 / / editors K.T. Arasu ... [et. al.]

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 1996
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (476 p.)
• Disciplina: 512/.55
• Soggetto topico: Finite groups; Difference sets; Number theory; Mathematical physics
• Classificazione: SD 1993
• Altri autori: ArasuK. T. <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- PART I GROUPS AND GEOMETRY -- On flag-transitive c.c*-geometries / Baumeister, Barbara -- On the 1-cohomology of the groups SL4(2n), SU4(2n), and Spίn7(2n) / Dowd, Michael F. -- About a conjecture of Guralnick and Thompson / Frohardt, Daniel / Magaard, Kay -- On the Suzuki groups and the outer automorphisms of S6 / Glauberman, George -- Note on Lie algebras, finite groups and finite geometries / Kantor, William M. -- m-systems and the BLT property / Shult, Ernest -- A block complex collapsing to the Brauer tree / Smith, Stephen D. -- Some sporadic geometries / Stroth, G. -- The uniqueness case / Stroth, G. -- PART II DIFFERENCE SETS -- Exponent bounds for a family of abelian difference sets / Arasu, K.T. / Davis, James A. / Jedwab, Jonathan / Ma, Siu Lun / McFarland, Robert L. -- A survey of Hadamard difference sets / Davis, James A. / Jedwab, Jonathan -- Difference sets in nilpotent groups with large Frattini quotient: geometric methods and (375, 34, 3) / Iiams, Joel E. / Liebler, Robert A. / Smith, Kenneth W. -- A difference set construction of Turyn adapted to semi-direct products / Meisner, D. B. -- Difference sets in groups of order 4p4 / Pollatsek, Harriet -- A survey on relative difference sets / Pott, Alexander -- Williamson matrices and difference sets / Xia, Ming-yuan -- Note on Paley type partial difference sets / Xiang, Qing -- PART ΙII THE MONSTER -- Anti-bracket formalism with the Kahler geometry / Aoyama, S. -- Singular values of Thompson series / Chen, Imin / Yui, Noriko -- Understanding groups like Γ0(N) / Conway, J. H. -- The ̣√Monster construction / Conway, J. H. -- On vertex operator algebras as sl2-modules / Dong, Chongying / Lin, Zongzhu / Mason, Geoffrey -- Lattices and generalized Hecke operators / Ferenbaugh, Charles R. -- Codes, loops and p-locals / Griess, Robert L. -- A generalization of Kac-Moody algebras / Harada, K. / Miyamoto, M. / Yamada, H. -- A note on the elliptic curves of Harada-Lang / McKay, John -- Ternary codes and ℤ3-orbifold constructions of conformal field theories / Montague, P. S. -- Non-monstrous moonshine / Norton, S. P. -- Monstrous Moonshine and orbifolds / Tuite, Michael P.
• Titolo autorizzato: Groups, difference sets, and the monster
• ISBN: 3-11-089310-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785824003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ohio State University Mathematical Research Institute Publications