| Description |
1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; v. 45 |
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Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 45.
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| Contents |
Diagram geometries for sporadic groups / Francis Buekenhout -- Symmetric presentations and linear groups / Colin M. Campbell -- Rationality of certain zeta functions associated with modular representation theory / Leonard Chastkofsky -- Computing the character table of a Lie group / J.H. Conway and L. Queen -- Multiplicative products of $\eta $-functions / D. Dummit, H. Kisilevsky and J. McKay -- An $E_8$-approach to $F_1$ / I.B. Frenkel, J. Lepowsky and A. Meurman -- The Monster and its nonassociative algebra / Robert L. Griess, Jr. -- Some consequences of the classification of finite simple groups / William M. Kantor -- Group representations and the resolution of rational double points / Horst Knörrer -- $M_{24}$ and certain automorphic forms / Geoffrey Mason -- Generalized root systems and characters / R.V. Moody -- The uniqueness of the Fischer-Griess Monster / S.P. Norton -- Efficiency of finite simple groups and their covering groups / Edmund F. Robertson -- Buildings and sporadic groups / M.A. Ronan -- On the head characters of the Monster simple group / Stephen D. Smith -- Residual geometries for sporadic and classical groups -- a survey / Stephen D. Smith -- Some consequences of the elementary relations in ${\rm SL}_n$ / Robert Steinberg |
| Notes |
"The Canadian Mathematical Society Conference on Finite Groups--Coming of Age was held at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec on June 15-28, 1982, with partial support from FCAC (Quebec) and NSERC (Canada)"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Finite groups -- Congresses
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Finite groups
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKay, John, 1939-
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| LC no. |
85015049 |
| ISBN |
9780821876305 |
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0821876309 |
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