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Finite Simple Groups: Thirty Years of the Atlas and Beyond
About this Title
Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Robert Guralnick, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Gerhard Hiss, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Klaus Lux, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Pham Huu Tiep, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
2017; Volume 694
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-3678-0 (print); 978-1-4704-4168-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/694
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Front/Back Matter
Articles
- Yang-Hui He and John McKay – Moonshine and the meaning of life
- Simon P. Norton – The Monster is fabulous
- A. A. Ivanov – Majorana representation of the Monster group
- Jean-Pierre Serre – Letter to Donna Testerman
- Thomas Breuer, Gunter Malle and E. A. O’Brien – Reliability and reproducibility of Atlas information
- Frank Lübeck – Characters and Brauer trees of the covering group of ${{}^2\!E_6(2)}$
- Robert A. Wilson – Maximal subgroups of sporadic groups
- R. T. Curtis – Construction of the Thompson Chain of subgroups of the Conway group $\cdot {\mathrm O}$ and complete graphs on $n$ letters
- Nick Gill, Neil I. Gillespie, Cheryl E. Praeger and Jason Semeraro – Conway’s groupoid and its relatives
- Michael Aschbacher – The subgroup structure of finite groups
- Kay Magaard – Some remarks on maximal subgroups of finite classical groups
- Jon F. Carlson – Toward a classification of endotrivial modules
- Gabriel Navarro – Some remarks on global/local conjectures
- Meinolf Geck – Minuscule weights and Chevalley groups
- Gabriele Nebe, Richard Parker and Sarah Rees – A method for building permutation representations of finitely presented groups
- Martin W. Liebeck – Character ratios for finite groups of Lie type, and applications
- Aner Shalev – Conjugacy classes, growth and complexity
- Rebecca Waldecker – Permutation groups where non-trivial elements have few fixed points