Groups St Andrews 1989

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Author(s): C. M. Campbell, E. F. Robertson
Series: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series
Publisher: CUP
Year: 1991

Language: English
Pages: 258

CONTENTS......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
17. A survey of recent results on projective representations of the symmetric groups......Page 15
18. Some applications of graded diagrams in combinatorial group theory......Page 22
19. Rational growth of wreath products......Page 73
20. The modular group and generalized Farey graphs......Page 80
21. On the n-centre of a group......Page 103
22. Existentially closed finitary linear groups......Page 117
23. Permutability and subnormality of subgroups......Page 127
24. Some applications of powerful p-groups......Page 134
25. Combinatorial aspects of finitely generated virtually free groups......Page 150
26. Problems in loop theory for group theorists......Page 160
27. Sylow theory of CC-groups : a survey......Page 164
28. On the minimal number of generators of certain groups......Page 172
29. Lie properties of modular group algebras......Page 186
30. Observations on a conjecture of Hans Zassenhaus......Page 191
31. The Fibonacci groups revisited......Page 209
32. Galois groups......Page 219
33. Infinite simple permutation groups - a survey......Page 227
34. Polynomial 2-cocyles......Page 249