Walter, John H.

B-Conjecture : Characterization of Chevalley Groups. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; v.61 . - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Part I. Characterization of Chevalley groups and some locallyε-unbalanced groups -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Preliminary concepts and results -- 2. 2-Components of type PSL(2,q) and A[sub(7)] -- 3. Characterization of groups of type l which are not Chevalley type -- 4. Characterization of Chevalley groups -- Part II. The B-Conjecture -- signalizer functors -- 0. Introduction -- 1 . Properties of uneven 2-components -- 2. Verification of A-oddness -- 3. Regular elementary 2-groups and the generation of layers -- 4. Construction of proper subgroups by signalizer functors -- 5. Properties of a minimal counterexample -- 6. Proof of Theorem I -- References -- Index -- Index of notation.

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Chevalley groups.
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