C. Campbell

Groups - St Andrews 1981

Herausgeber: Hitchin, N. J.; Robertson, E. F.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups - St Andrews 1981', held at the University of St Andrews in July/August 1981.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521289740
• ISBN-10: 0521289742
• Artikelnr.: 22892385

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Twenty-five years of Groups St Andrews Conferences C. M. Campbell
and E. F. Robertson; Original introduction; 1. An elementary introduction
to coset table methods in computational group theory J. Neubüser; 2.
Applications of cohomology to the theory of groups D. J. S. Robinson; 3.
Groups with exponent four S. J. Tobin; 4. The Schur multiplier: an
elementary approach J. Wiegold; 5. A procedure for obtaining simplified
defining relations for a subgroup D. G. Arrell, S. Manrai and M. F.
Worboys; 6. GLn and the automorphism groups of free metabelian groups and
polynomial rings S. Bachmuth and H. Y. Mochizuki; 7. Isoclinisms of group
extensions and the Schur multiplicator F. R. Beyl; 8. The maximal subgroups
of the Chevalley group G2 (4) G. Butler; 9. Generators and relations for
the cohomology ring of Janko's first group in the first twenty-one
dimensions G. R. Chapman; 10. The Burnside group of exponent 5 with two
generators M. Hall Jr and C. C. Sims; 11. The orientability of subgroups of
plane groups A. H. M. Hoare and D. Singerman; 12. On groups with unbounded
non-archimedean elements A. H. M. Hoare and D. L. Wilkens; 13. An algorithm
for the second derived factor group J. R. Howse and D. L. Johnson; 14.
Finiteness conditions and the word problem V. Huber-Dyson; 15. Growth
sequences relative to subgroups W. Kimmerle; 16. On the centres of mapping
class groups of surfaces C. Maclachlan; 17. A glance at the early history
of group rings C. Polcino Milies; 18. Units of group rings: a short survey
C. Polcino Milies; 19. Subgroups of small cancellation groups: a survey S.
J. Pride; 20. On the hopficity and related properties of some two-generator
groups S. J. Pride and A. D. Vella; 21. The isomorphism problem and units
in group rings of finite groups K. W. Roggenkamp; 22. On one-relator groups
that are free products of two free groups with cyclic amalgamation G.
Rosenberger; 23. The algebraic structure of X0-categorical groups J. S.
Wilson; 24. Abstracts; 25. Addendum to: 'An elementary introduction to
coset table methods in computational group theory' C. M. Campbell, G. Havas
and E. F. Robertson; 26. Addendum to: 'Applications of cohomology to the
theory of groups' D. J. S. Robinson; 27. Addendum to 'Groups with exponent
four' S. J. Tobin; 28. Addendum to 'The Schur multiplier: an elementary
approach J. Wiegold.