Group Theory : : Proceedings of the Singapore Group Theory Conference held at the National University of Singapore, June 8–19, 1987 / / ed. by Kai N. Cheng, Yu K. Leong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Adian, S.I.,; Amberg, Bernhard,; Bachmuth, S.,; Berrick, A.J.,; Bhandari, Ashwani K.,; Blyth, Russell D.,; Brookes, C.J.B.,; Bryce, R.A.,; Campbell, C.M.,; Cheng, Kai Nah,; Comerford, Leo P.,; Cossey, John,; Cárdenas, Humberto,; Edmunds, Charles C.,; Efang, Wang,; Feit, Walter,; Franciosi, Silvana,; Gaglione, Anthony M.,; Giovanni, Francesco de,; Greenlees, J.P.C.,; Hartley, B.,; Herfort, Wolfgang,; Higman, Graham,; Ito, Noboru,; Johnson, D. L.,; Kegel, O.H.,; Kostrikin, A.I.,; Leong, Yu Kiang,; Levin, Frank,; Lluis, Emilio,; Mochizuki, H. Y.,; Moori, Jamshid,; Neumann, B.H.,; Newman, M.F.,; O\x27Brien, E.A.,; Ormerod, E.A.,; Passi, I.B.S.,; Praeger, Cheryl E.,; Razborov, A.A.,; Renz, Burkhardt,; Repin, N.N.,; Rhemtulla, A.H.,; Ribes, Luis,; Robertson, E.F.,; Robinson, Derek J. S.,; Robinson, Derek J.S.,; Rosenberger, Gerhard,; Schlichting, Günter,; Shee, S. C.,; Suzuki, Michio,; Teh, H. H.,; Thomas, R.M.,; Thompson, J.G.,; Waldinger, Hermann V.,; Weiss, A.R.,; Wujie, Shi,; Yoshida, Tomoyuki,; Yun, Fan,
• HerausgeberIn: Cheng, Kai N.,; Leong, Yu K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (586 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Organising Committee -- Contents -- Pictures -- Workshop lectures -- Four lectures on Sylow theory in locally finite groups -- Cohomology in infinite group theory -- Invited lectures -- Upper and lower bounds for nilpotency classes of Lie algebras with Engel conditions -- Recent progress on rewritability in groups -- Some finite groups with nontrivial centers which are Galois groups -- Actions on lower central factors of free groups -- Some countably free groups -- Automorphism groups of DRADs -- Invariant lattices in Lie algebras and their automorphism groups -- Yet more on finite groups with few defining relations -- Elementary proof of the simplicity of sporadic groups -- Fricke, free groups and SL2 -- Hecke operators and non congruence subgroups -- Contributed papers -- Soluble groups which are the product of a nilpotent and a polycyclic subgroup -- The tame range of automorphism groups and GLn -- Universal groups, binate groups and acyclicity -- Residual solvability of the unit groups of group algebras -- Stabilisers of injective modules over nilpotent groups -- Fitting classes after Dark -- On groups related to Fibonacci groups -- On the Chern classes of representations of the symmetric groups -- Solutions of equations in free groups -- Block covers and module covers of finite groups -- A theorem in the commutator calculus -- Topological methods in equivariant cohomology -- Solvable subgroups of free products of profinite groups -- Non-cancellation and non-abelian tensor squares -- A class of SQ-Universal groups -- Action tables for the Fischer group F22 -- A CAYLEY library for the groups of order dividing 128 -- On octic field extensions and a problem in group theory -- Geometric invariants and HNN-extensions -- Groups with permutable subgroup products -- Symmetric presentations -- On the periodicity of group operations -- An application of groups to the topology design of connection machines -- A new characterization of the sporadic simple groups -- Equicentralizer subgroups of sporadic simple groups -- Some transfer theorems for finite groups -- Appendices -- List of participants -- List of lectures -- Backmatter