Gabriel Navarro

Character Theory and the McKay Conjecture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents contemporary character theory of finite groups from the basics to the state of the art, with new, refined proofs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428446
• ISBN-10: 1108428444
• Artikelnr.: 50450043

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Navarro is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Valencia. He has published over 160 papers, and the widely-cited volume Characters and Blocks of Finite Groups (Cambridge, 1998). He is a leading researcher in character theory and the McKay conjecture.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notation
1. The basics
2. Action on characters by automorphisms
3. Galois action on characters
4. Character values and identities
5. Characters over a normal subgroup
6. Extension of characters
7. Degrees of characters
8. The Howlett-Isaacs theorem
9. Global-local counting conjectures
10. A reduction theorem for the McKay conjecture
Appendix
Bibliographic notes
References
Index.