TY - BOOK AU - Waldecker,Rebecca TI - Isolated Involutions in Finite Groups T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9781470410612 AV - QA557 -- .W353 2013eb U1 - 512/.23 PY - 2013/// CY - Providence PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Glauberman, G., -- 1941- KW - Involutes (Mathematics) KW - Finite groups KW - Solvable groups KW - Feit-Thompson theorem KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preliminaries -- 2.1. Definitions and Notation -- 2.2. General Results -- 2.3. A Nilpotent Action Result -- Chapter 3. Isolated Involutions -- Chapter 4. A Minimal Counter-Example to Glauberman's Z*-Theorem -- Chapter 5. Balance and Signalizer Functors -- Chapter 6. Preparatory Results for the Local Analysis -- 6.1. The Bender Method -- 6.2. -Minimal Subgroups, Pushing Down and Uniqueness Results -- Chapter 7. Maximal Subgroups Containing -- Chapter 8. The 2-rank of _{2',2}( ) -- 8.1. Involutions in _{2',2}( )\{ } -- 8.2. The Proof of Theorem B -- Chapter 9. Components of \overline{ } and the Soluble Z*-Theorem -- Chapter 10. Unbalanced Components -- Chapter 11. The 2-Rank of -- Chapter 12. The F*-Structure Theorem -- Chapter 13. More Involutions -- 13.1. Preliminary Results -- 13.2. The Symmetric Case -- 13.3. The General Case -- Chapter 14. The Endgame -- Chapter 15. The Final Contradiction and the Z*-Theorem for ₂-Groups -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3114197 ER -