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Book DetailsContemporary MathematicsVolume: 765; 2021; 444 ppMSC: Primary 20
Let \(p\) be a prime and \(S\) a finite \(p\)-group. A \(p\)-fusion system on \(S\) is a category whose objects are the subgroups of \(S\) and whose morphisms are certain injective group homomorphisms. Fusion systems are of interest in modular representation theory, algebraic topology, and local finite group theory.
The book provides a characterization of the 2-fusion systems of the groups of Lie type and odd characteristic, a result analogous to the Classical Involution Theorem for groups. The theorem is the most difficult step in a two-part program. The first part of the program aims to determine a large subclass of the class of simple 2-fusion systems, while part two seeks to use the result on fusion systems to simplify the proof of the theorem classifying the finite simple groups.
ReadershipGraduate students and research mathematicians interested in the theory of finite groups.
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Michael Aschbacher — Quanternion Fusion Packets
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Aschbacher has done a fine job of providing a careful overview and development of background results with supporting examples in Chapters 1 through 5 of this volume, before plunging into the proofs of the main supporting Theorems 2-8 in Chapters 6-15, and concluding with the proofs of Theorem 1 and the Main Theorem in Chapter 16. The pace and intensity of work on the classification of the finite simple groups during the 1970s were extraordinary. In consequence, exposition often suffered. Aschbacher has ably remedied this in the current volume, for which he deserves much thanks.
Ronald Solomon, Ohio State University
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Let \(p\) be a prime and \(S\) a finite \(p\)-group. A \(p\)-fusion system on \(S\) is a category whose objects are the subgroups of \(S\) and whose morphisms are certain injective group homomorphisms. Fusion systems are of interest in modular representation theory, algebraic topology, and local finite group theory.
The book provides a characterization of the 2-fusion systems of the groups of Lie type and odd characteristic, a result analogous to the Classical Involution Theorem for groups. The theorem is the most difficult step in a two-part program. The first part of the program aims to determine a large subclass of the class of simple 2-fusion systems, while part two seeks to use the result on fusion systems to simplify the proof of the theorem classifying the finite simple groups.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the theory of finite groups.
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Chapters
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Michael Aschbacher — Quanternion Fusion Packets
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Aschbacher has done a fine job of providing a careful overview and development of background results with supporting examples in Chapters 1 through 5 of this volume, before plunging into the proofs of the main supporting Theorems 2-8 in Chapters 6-15, and concluding with the proofs of Theorem 1 and the Main Theorem in Chapter 16. The pace and intensity of work on the classification of the finite simple groups during the 1970s were extraordinary. In consequence, exposition often suffered. Aschbacher has ably remedied this in the current volume, for which he deserves much thanks.
Ronald Solomon, Ohio State University