This two-volume book contains papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Radical rings and products of groups W. Amberg and Y. Sysak; 2. Homogeneous integral table algebras of degrees two, three and four with a faithful element Z. Arad; 3. Statistical methods in algorithms for finite groups L. Babai and R. Beals; 4. Totally and mutually permutable products of finite groups A. Ballester-Bolinches, M. D. Perez-Ramos and M. C. Pedraza-Aguilera; 5. Ends and algebraic directions of pseudogroups A. Bis; 6. On locally nilpotent groups with the minimal condition on centralizers V. Bludov; 7. Infinite groups in projective and symplectic geometry F. Bogomolov and L. Katzarkov; 8. Non-positive curvature in group theory M. R. Bridson; 9. Group theoretic applications of non-commutative toric geometry C. J. B. Brookes; 10. Theorems of Kegel-Wielandt type A. Carocca and R. R. Maier; 11. Singly generated radicals associated with varieties of groups C. Casacuberta, J. L. Rodriguez and D. Scevenels; 12. The word problem in groups of cohomological dimension 2 D. J. Collins and C. F. Miller III; 13. Polycyclic-by-finite groups: from affine to polynomial structures K. Dekimpe; 14. On groups with rank restrictions on subgroups M. R. Dixon, M. J. Evans and H. Smith; 15. On distances of multiplication tables of groups A. Drapal; 16. The Dade conjecture for the McLaughlin group G. Entz and H. Pahlings; 17. Automorphism groups of certain non-quasiprimitive almost simple graphs X. G. Fang, G. Havas and J. Wang; 18. Subgroups of the upper-triangular matrix group with maximal derived length and a minimal number of generators S. P. Glasby; 19. On p-pronormal subgroups of finite p-soluble groups M Gomez-Fernandez; 20. On the system of defining relations and the Schur multiplier of periodic groups generated by finite automata R. I. Grigorchuk; 21. On the dimension of groups acting on buildings J. Harlander; 22. Dade's conjecture for the simple Higman-Sims group N. M. Hassan and E. Horvath; 23. On the F* - Theorem M. Hertweck and W. Kimmerle; 24. Covering numbers for groups M. Herzog; 25. Characterizing subnormally closed formations M. C. Hofmann; 26. Symmetric words in a free nilpotent group of class 5 W. Holubowski; 27. A non-residually finite square of finite groups T. Hsu and D. Wise.
