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Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups
 
Rebecca Waldecker Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1061-2
Product Code:  MEMO/226/1061.E
List Price: $83.00
MAA Member Price: $74.70
AMS Member Price: $49.80
Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups
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Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups
Rebecca Waldecker Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1061-2
Product Code:  MEMO/226/1061.E
List Price: $83.00
MAA Member Price: $74.70
AMS Member Price: $49.80
  • Book Details
     
     
    Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
    Volume: 2262013; 150 pp
    MSC: Primary 20

    This text provides a new proof of Glauberman's Z*-Theorem under the additional hypothesis that the simple groups involved in the centraliser of an isolated involution are known simple groups.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Preliminaries
    • 3. Isolated Involutions
    • 4. A Minimal Counter-Example to Glauberman’s Z*-Theorem
    • 5. Balance and Signalizer Functors
    • 6. Preparatory Results for the Local Analysis
    • 7. Maximal Subgroups Containing $C$
    • 8. The $2$-rank of $O_{2’,2}(C)$
    • 9. Components of $\bar {C}$ and the Soluble Z*-Theorem
    • 10. Unbalanced Components
    • 11. The $2$-Rank of $G$
    • 12. The F*-Structure Theorem
    • 13. More Involutions
    • 14. The Endgame
    • 15. The Final Contradiction and the Z*-Theorem for $\mathcal {K}_2$-Groups
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Volume: 2262013; 150 pp
MSC: Primary 20

This text provides a new proof of Glauberman's Z*-Theorem under the additional hypothesis that the simple groups involved in the centraliser of an isolated involution are known simple groups.

  • Chapters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. Isolated Involutions
  • 4. A Minimal Counter-Example to Glauberman’s Z*-Theorem
  • 5. Balance and Signalizer Functors
  • 6. Preparatory Results for the Local Analysis
  • 7. Maximal Subgroups Containing $C$
  • 8. The $2$-rank of $O_{2’,2}(C)$
  • 9. Components of $\bar {C}$ and the Soluble Z*-Theorem
  • 10. Unbalanced Components
  • 11. The $2$-Rank of $G$
  • 12. The F*-Structure Theorem
  • 13. More Involutions
  • 14. The Endgame
  • 15. The Final Contradiction and the Z*-Theorem for $\mathcal {K}_2$-Groups
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