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CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS
402
Israel Mathematical Conference Proceedings
Ischia Group Theory 2004 Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of
Marcel Herzog March 3l-April3, 2004
Naples, Italy
Zvi Arad Mariagrazia Bianchi
Wolfgang Herfort Patrizio Longobardi
Mercede Maj Carlo Scoppola
Editors
Ischia Group Theory 2004
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CoNTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS
402
Israel Mathematical Conference Proceedings
Ischia Group Theory 2004 Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of
Marcel Herzog March 31-April 3, 2004
Naples, Italy
Zvi Arad Mariagrazia Bianchi
Wolfgang Herfort Patrizio Longobardi
Mercede Maj Carlo Scoppola
Editors
American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island
Bar-llan University Ramat Gan, Israel
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Dedicated to Marcel Herzog
Contents
Preface ix
Sponsors xi
Marcel Herzog xiii
Bibliography of Marcel Herzog xv
Conference Program xxi
List of participants xxiii
The history of the classification of finite groups with a CC-subgroup ZVI ARAD and WOLFGANG HERFORT 1
Structure of finite p-groups with given subgroups YAKOV BERKOVICH and ZVONIMIR JANKO 13
Lower bounds for the number of conjugacy classes in finite groups EDWARD A. BERTRAM 95
Monounary simple algebras MARIAGRAZIA BIANCHI, ANNA GILLIO, and LIBERO VERARDI 119
Algebras with positive bases, commutators and covering numbers DAVID CHILLAG 133
On certain group theoretical properties generalizing commutativity COSTANTINO DELIZIA and CHIARA NICOTERA 143
Probabilistic non-generators in profinite groups ELOISA DETOMI and ANDREA LUCCHINI 149
Limits of vertex-transitive graphs MICHAEL GIUDICI, CAI HENG LI, CHERYL E. PRAEGER, AKos SEREss, and VLADIMIR TROFIMOV 159
Group rings with simple augmentation ideals RUDIGER GOBEL and OTTO H. KEGEL
On the number of commutators in groups MARCEL HERZOG, PATRIZIA LONGOBARDI, and MERCEDE MAJ
New results in the theory of finite 2-groups ZVONIMIR JANKO
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The existence of normal and characteristic subgroups in finite groups GIL KAPLAN 197
On the covering numbers of finite groups: Some old and new results ARIEH LEV 201
Normal subgroups in the subgroup lattices of finite p-groups MARIO MAINARDIS 211
On characters-classes duality and orders of centralizers AVINOAM MANN 215
Bijections for identities of multisets of hook numbers AMITAI REGEV 219
Hall subgroups of finite groups DANILA 0. REVIN and EVGENII P. VDOVIN 229
Preface
The papers of the present volume represent the proceedings of the Conference entitled "Ischia Group Theory 2004," which took place at the Jolly Hotel, Ischia (Naples, Italy), from March, 31st to April, 3rd 2004, in honour of MARCEL HERZOG. The organizing committee consisted of ZVI ARAD, MARIA-GRAZIA BIANCHI, PATRIZIA LONGOBARDI, MERCEDE MAJ and CARLO SCOPPOLA. The local committee was formed by COSTANTINO DELIZIA, CHIARA NICOTERA, CARMELA SICA and MARIA TOTA, all from the Universita di Salerno. The articles in this volume, most of which are close to areas of research of Marcel Herzog, are contributions by speakers and participants of the conference.
The following topics are represented by the articles: combinatorial questions, such as counting the number of conjugacy classes of a group, or investigating the covering number of a simple group; the (sub)group structure of groups, such as recognizing the structure of a p-group when there are restrictions on certain of its subgroups; groups with a bound on the number of commutator in groups; classi-fication of Hall subgroups of almost simple groups; classification of groups with a CC-subgroup; algebras, mostly connected to or motivated from character theory; table algebras; group rings with a simple augmentation ideal; probabilistic methods (mainly for profinite groups); graphs with groups of automorphisms acting primi-tively on vertices; certain graphs connected with groups, such as the commutativity graph or the prime graph.
A poster session on various topics connected with themes of the conference augmented the scientific program.
It is our pleasure to thank the organizers and particularly our colleagues from the Universita di Salerno, who made our stay and work extremely pleasant; the referees of the papers for spending many hours reviewing papers and providing valuable feedback to the authors; the authors of all submitted papers for their con-tributions; the staff of the JOLLY HOTEL for having been very accommodating and supportive; the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY and BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY for their kind support for producing these proceedings in a professional and timely manner; MIRIAM BELLER for her expert assistance in compiling this volume; and, of course, MARCEL HERZOG for allowing us to celebrate with him.
The Editors
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SPONSORS
• Programma di Cofinanziamento MIUR "Teoria dei Gruppi e Applicazioni" • Programma di Cofinanziamento MIUR "Algebre di Lie graduate e pro-p-
gruppi: rappresentazioni, periodicita e derivazioni" • Universita degli Studi di Salerno • Universita degli Studi di Milano • Universita degli Studi di L'Aquila • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Universita di Salerno • Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Enriques" dell'Universita di Milano • Facolta di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali dell'Universita di Salerno • Regione Campania • Provincia di Salerno
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MARCEL HERZOG
Marcel Herzog was born in Krakow, Poland, on June 6, 1935. He spent the years of World War II in the Soviet Union. In 1946 he returned to Poland; and in 1948, he emigrated to Israel. From 1949 until1953, he worked days and studied in an evening high school. During the years 1953-1955, he served in the Israeli Army. He started his academic studies in 1955, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in 1961 was awarded the M.Sc. in Mathematics. In 1962, he started his Ph.D. studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y, where his Ph.D. advisor was Professor Walter Feit. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Cornell in 1965.
Professor Herzog's academic career started with a two year position at the University of Illinois in Champagne-Urbana, followed by one year spent at the University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1968, he returned to Israel, where he was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics of Tel-Aviv University. He was promoted there to Full Professor in 1980. During the years 1989-1991, Professor Herzog served as the head of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel-Aviv University. He has supervised eight Ph.D. students, and the ninth is about to submit his Ph.D. thesis. Among his Ph.D. students were Zvi Arad, Arie Bialostocki, Arieh Lev and Gil Kaplan. Professor Herzog retired in 2003 and was appointed Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University.
Professor Herzog has travelled extensively during his academic career. He spent the Winter Semester of 1971 as a Visiting Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark and the years 1974-1977 in Canberra, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Advanced Studies. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles during the academic year 1983-84; and between the years 1988-2001, he spent two and a half years as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Professor Herzog has published about 100 scientific papers, mainly in group theory, but also in combinatorics and number theory. His joint paper with Erdos and SchOnheim in 1970 gives him an Erdos number 1. Most of Professor Herzog's papers deal with finite group theory, with an emphasis on character theory and conjugacy classes. There are also numerous papers dealing with groups of permu-tations and the structure of simple groups. Since 1993, he has also published papers dealing with infinite groups satisfying some finiteness conditions.
Professor Herzog has collaborated and continues to collaborate with a great number of mathematicians from all over the world. His main collaborators are J. Schonheim, C.E. Praeger, K.B. Reid, T. Berger, D. Chillag, Z. Arad, E. Bertram, A. Mann, M. Bianchi, A. Gillio, C.M. Scoppola, P. Longobardi, M. Maj, G. Kaplan and A. Lev.
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1. A characterization of some projective special linear groups, J. Algebra 6 (1967), 305-308.
2. A characterization of the simple groups PSL(2,p),p > 3, Israel J. Math. 5 (1967), 79-85.
3. On finite groups which contain a Frobenius subgroup, J. Algebra 6 (1967), 192-221.
4. On finite group containing a CCT-subgroup with a cyclic Sylow subgroup, Pacific J. Math. 25 (1968), 523-531. .
5. On finite groups with cyclic Sylow subgroups for all odd primes, Israel J. Math. 6 (1968), 206-216.
6. On finite simple groups of order divisible hy three primes only, J. Algebra 10 (1968), 383-388.
7. On centralizers of involutions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (1969), 170-174.
8. On finite groups with independent cyclic Sylow subgroups, Pacific J. Math. 29 (1969), 285-293.
9. (with P. Erdos and J. Schonheim), An extremal problem ·an the set of noncoprime divisors of a number, Israel J. Math. 8 (1970), 408-412.
10. On a problem of E. Artin, J. Algebra 15 (1970), 408-416. 11. On finite groups with a cyclic Sylow subgroup, Illinois J. Math. 14 (1970),
188-193. 12. On groups of order 2"'3i3p-r with a cyclic Sylow 3-subgroups, Proc. Amer.
Math. Soc. 24 (1970), 116-118. 13. Finite groups with a large cyclic Sylow subgroup, Finite Simple Groups,
Chapter V, Academic Press, London, 1971, pp. 199-203. 14. (with R. Donagi), On the additive completion of polynomial sets of inte-
gers, J. Number Theory 3 (1971), 150-154. 15. CBB-groups involving no Suzuki groups, Pacific J. Math. 39 (1971), 687-
689. 16. Groups with strongly self-centralizing 3-centralizers, Israel J. Math. 9
(1971), 507-510. 17. Intersections of nilpotent Hall subgroups, Pacific J. Math. 36 (1971), 331-
333. 18. On Burnside's lemma, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1971), 379-380. 19. (with J. Schonheim), Linear and nonlinear single-error-correcting perfect
mixed codes, Inform. and Control18 (1971), 364-368. 20. On 2-Sylow intersections, Israel J. Math. 11 (1972), 326-327.
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(with J. Schonheim), Group partition, factorization and the vector cover-ing problem, Canadian Math. Bull. 15 (1972), 207-214. (with J. Schonheim), On certain sets of divisors of a number, Discrete Math. 1 (1972), 329-332. (with J. Schonheim), The Br property and chromatic numbers of general-ized graphs, J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B 12 (1972), 41-49. Central 2-Sylow intersections, Pacific J. Math. 45 (1973), 535-538. On simple groups with a cyclic maximal 2-Sylow intersection, Israel J. Math. 15 (1973), 350-355. On Sylow intersections, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1973), 352-354. Simple groups with cyclic central 2-Sylow intersections, J. Algebra 25 (1973), 307-312. (with E. Shult), Groups with central 2-Sylow intersections of rank at most one, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (1973), 465-470. The influence of 2-Sylow intersections on the structure of finite simple groups, Proceedings 2nd International Conference Theory of Groups, Can-berra 1973, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 372, 1974, pp. 361-365. On simple groups with a quaternion maximal 2-Sylow intersection, Israel J. Math. 19 (1974), 225-227. (with J. Schonheim), An observation and a problem concerning represen-tation of a group as a union of cosets, Canadian Bull. Math. 17 (1974), 150. On groups with extremal blocks, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 14 (1976), 325-330.
33. (with C. E. Praeger), Minimal degree of primitive permutation groups, Combin. Math. IV, Proceedings 4th Australian Conference, Adelaide 1975, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 560, 1976, pp. 116-122.
34. (with C. E. Praeger), On the fixed points of Sylow subgroups of transitive permutation groups, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 21 (1976), 428-437.
35. (with C. E. Praeger), On the order of linear groups of fixed finite exponent, J. Algebra 43 (1976), 216-220.
36. (with K. Reid), Number of factors in k-cycle decompositions of permuta-tions, Combin. Math. IV, Proceedings 4th Australian Conference, Ade-laide 1975, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 560, 1976, pp. 123-131.
37. (with K. Reid), Representation of permutations as products of cycles of fixed length, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 22 (1976), 321-331.
38. (with Z. Arad), A classification of groups with a centralizer condition. II, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 16 (1977), 55-60.
39. (with Z. Arad), A classification of groups with a centralizer condition. II: Corrigendum and addendum, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 17 (1977), 157-160.
40. (with Z. Arad), On fundamental subgroups of order divisible by three, Houston J. Math. 3 (1977), 309-313.
41. Counting group elements of order p modulo p2 , Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (1977), 247-250.
42. On linear relations between character values, J. Algebra 47 (1977), 154-161.
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43. (with G. I. Lehrer), A note concerning Coxeter groups and permutations, Group Theory, Proceedings Miniconference Canberra 1975, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 573, 1977, pp. 53-56.
44. (with C. E. Praeger), On character values in finite groups, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 17 (1977), 451-461.
45. (with K. Reid), Permutation groups generated by cycles of fixed length, Israel J. Math. 26 (1977), 221-231.
46. (with D. Wright), Characterization of a family of simple groups by their character table, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 24 (1977), 296-304.
47. (with T. R. Berger), Criteria for nonperfectness, Commun. Algebra 6 (1978), 959-968.
48. (with T. R. Berger), On characters in the principal2-block, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 25 (1978), 264-268.
49. (with C. E. Praeger), Direct factors of Sylow groups, Commun. Algebra 6 (1978), 1375-1382.
50. (with C. E. Praeger), On the fixed points of Sylow subgroups of transitive permutation groups: Corrigendum, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 26 (1978), 383-384.
51. (with K. Reid), Regularity in tournaments, Theor. Appl. Graphs, Pro-ceedings Kalamazoo 1976, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 642, 1978, pp. 442-453.
52. (with D. Chillag), Defect groups, trivial intersections and character tables, J. Algebra 61 (1979), 152-160.
53. On the classification of finite simple groups by the number of involutions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1979), 313-314.
54. (with C. E. Praeger), On characters in the principal 2-block. II, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 28 (1979), 100-106.
55. (with Z. Arad and A. Shaki), On finite groups with almost nilpotent max-imal subgroups, J. Algebra 65 (1980), 445-452.
56. (with Z. Arad and A. Shaki), On maximal subgroups with a nilpotent subgroup of index 2, Finite Groups, Santa Cruz Conference 1979, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 37 (1980), 201-203.
57. (with A. R. Camina), Character tables determine Abelian Sylow 2-subgroups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 80 (1980), 533-535.
58. Character tables, trivial intersections and number of involutions, Finite Groups, Santa Cruz Conference 1979, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 37 (1980), 425-429.
59. (with D. Wright), Characterization of a family of simple groups by their character table. II, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 30 (1980), 168-170.
60. (with Z. Arad and D. Chillag), Classification of finite groups by a maximal subgroup, J. Algebra 71 (1981), 235-244.
61. (with z. Arad and D. Chillag), On a problem of Probenius, J. Algebra 74 (1982), 516-523.
62. (with Z. Arad), Products of conjugacy classes in groups, Representations of Algebras, Proceedings 4th International Conference, Ottawa/Canada 1984, Vol. 2, Carleton-Ottawa Math. Lect. Note Ser. 2, Exp. 2, (1984).
63. (editor with Z. Arad), Products of Conjugacy Classes in Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1112, Springer-Verlag, 1985.
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(with Z. Arad and J. Stavi), Powers and products of conjugacy classes in groups, in Products of Conjugacy Classes in Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1112, Springer-Verlag, 1985, pp. 6-51. (with E. A. Bertram), Finite groups with large centralizers, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 32 (1985), 399-414. (with Z. Arad and D. Chillag), Powers of characters of finite groups, J. Algebra 103 (1986), 241-255. (with D. Chillag), On character degrees quotients, Arch. Math. 55 (1989), 25-29. (with E. A. Bertram and A. Mann), On a graph related to conjugacy classes of groups, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 22{6) (1990), 569-575. (with M. Bianchi, A. Gillio and B. Mauri), Groups with non-central classes of distinct lengths, Rend. Sci. Mat. Appl., A 124 (1990), 157-160. (with L. Brailovsky and G. Freiman), Special elements in groups, Group Theory, Proceedings 2nd International Conference, Bressanone/Italy 1989, Suppl. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser. 23, 1990, pp. 33-42. (with D. Chillag), On the length of the conjugacy classes of finite groups, J. Algebra 131 (1990), 110-125. Conjugacy classes in finite groups, Rend. Semin. Mat. Fis. Milano 60 (1990)' 9-14. (with E. A. Bertram), Bounds on character degrees and class numbers of finite non-abelian simple groups, Groups, Vol. 1, Proceedings Interna-tional Conference, St. Andrews/UK 1989, London Math. Soc. Lecture Notes Ser., vol. 159, 1991, pp. 46-51.
74. (with E. A. Bertram), On medium-size subgroups and bases of finite groups, J. Combin. Theory, Ser. A 57 (1991), 1-14.
75. (with M. Bianchi, D. Chillag, A. Gillio, B. Mauri and C. M. Scoppola), Applications of a graph related to conjugacy classes in finite groups, Arch. Math. 58 (1992), no. 2, 126-132.
76. (withY. Berkovich and D. Chillag), Finite groups in which the degrees of the nonlinear irreducible characters are distinct, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 115 (1992), 955-959.
77. (with D. Chillag and A. Mann), On the diameter of a graph related to conjugacy classes of groups, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 25 (1993), no. 3, 255-262.
78. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), On a combinatorial problem in grqup theory, Israel J. Math. 82 (1993), 329-340.
79. (with 0. Manz), On the number of subgroups in finite solvable groups, J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 58 (1995), 134-141.
80. (with F. Menegazzo), On deficient products in infinite groups, Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 93 (1995), 1-6.
81. (with C. M. Scoppola), On deficient squares groups and fully-independent subsets, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 27 (1995), 65-70.
82. (with E. Bertram), On regular bases of finite groups, Amer. Math. Monthly 103 (1996), 796-799.
83. (with S. Adami, M. Bianchi and G. B. Mauri), On graph-complete groups, Istit. Lombardo Accad. Sci. Lett. Rend. A 130 (1996), no. 1-2, (1997), 295-307.
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84. (with L. Brailovsky), Counting squares of two-subsets in finite groups, Ars Combin. 42 (1996), 207-210.
85. (with P. Longobardi, M. Maj and A. Mann), Finite groups containing many subgroups are solvable, J. Algebra 179 (1996), 894-904.
86. (with K. H. Dovermann), Gap conditions for representations of symmetric groups, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 119 (1997), 113-137.
87. Two new elementary results in finite groups, Proceedings of the First Jamaican Conference on Group Theory and its Applications (Kingston, 1996), pp. 64-66.
88. (with E. W. Ellers and N. Gordeev), Covering numbers for Chevalley groups, Israel J. Math. 111 (1999), 339-372.
89. Covering numbers for groups, Groups St. Andrews 1997 in Bath, Selected papers of the International Conference, Bath, UK, July 26-August 9, 1997, Vol. 1 (C. M. Campbell et al., eds.), Cambridge University Press, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser., vol. 260, 1999, pp. 353-355.
90. New results on subset multiplication in groups, Structure Theory of Set Addition (Jean-MarcDeshouillers et al., eds.), Societe Mathematique de France, Asterisque, vol. 258, 1999, pp. 309-315.
91. (with M. Bianchi, A. Gillio, B. Mauri and L. Verardi), On finite solvable groups in which normality is a transitive relation, J. Group Theory 3(2) (2000), 147-156.
92. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), On an ascending series of types of groups, Groups - Korea '98, Proceedings of the 4th International Confer-ence, Pusan, Korea, August 10-16, 1998 (Young Gheel Baik et al., eds.), Walter de Gruyter, 2000, pp. 181-187.
93. (with P. Longobardi, M. Maj and A. Mann), On generalized Dedekind groups and Tarski super monsters, J. Algebra 226 (2000), 690-713.
94. (with E. Bertram), Powers of cycle-classes in symmetric groups, J. Com-bin. Theory, Ser. A 94 (2001), 87-99.
95. (with G. Kaplan), Large cyclic subgroups contain non-trivial normal sub-groups, J. Group Theory 4 (2001), 247-253.
96. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), Elements of finite length in groups, J. Group Theory 5 (2002), 317-323.
97. (with E. A. Bertram and A. Lev), A correspondence between conjugacy classes and irreducible characters of finite groups, Algebra Colloq. 10 (2003), 205-208.
98. (with G. Kaplan and A. Lucchini), On subgroups containing non-trivial normal subgroups, Israel J. of Math. 137 (2003), 183-188.
99. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), Elements and groups of finite length, Groups St. Andrews 2001 in Oxford, Selected Papers from the Interna-tional Conference, Oxford, UK, August 5-18, 2001, Vol. I (C. M. Campbell et al., eds.), Cambridge University Press, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser., vol. 304, 2003, pp. 249-255.
100. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), Groups with all elements of finite length, J. Algebra 263 (2003), 177-187.
101. (with P. Csorgo), On supersolvable groups and the nilpotator, Commun. Algebra 32 (2004), 609-620.
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102. (with G. Kaplan and A. Lev), On the commutator and the center of finite groups, J. Algebra 278 (2004), 494-501.
103. (with G. Kaplan and A. Lev), Representation of permutations as products of two cycles, Discrete Math. 285 (2004), 323-327.
104. (with M. Bianchi, A. Gillio, G. Qian and W. Shi), Characterization of non-nilpotent groups with two irreducible character degrees, J. Algebra 284 (2005), 326-332.
105. (with P. Longobardi and M. Maj), On the number of commutators in groups, this volume.
Conference Program
Wednesday, March 31
09.20
Chair: W. HERFORT
09.30 M. ISAACS 10.20 Z. ARAD
11.30 D. RoBINSON
12.20 B. HUPPERT
Chair: A. CARANTI
15.30 0. KEGEL 16.20 A. CAMINA
Chair: A. CARANTI
17.30 18.20
19.10
P. NEUMANN G. FREIMAN
A. PREVITALI
Thursday, April 1
Welcome Greetings
Numbers of classes of p--groups of given orders The history of the classification of finite groups with a CC-subgroup Chain conditions for subgroups of infinite order or index Character-degrees of simple groups
Diagonal groups and algebras Implications of conjugacy class size for finite groups
Orbital equations in primitive permutation groups The notion of isomorphism of subsets in additive number theory, group theory and probability the-ory Toward a uniqueness proof of the sporadic Thompson group
Chair: C. TIBILETTI MARCHIONNA
09.30 10.20
11.30 12.20
Z. JANKO D. CHILLAG
M. VAUGHAN-LEE F. MENEGAZZO
New results in the theory of finite 2-groups Algebras with positive bases, commutators and covering numbers 4-Engel groups Complements in simple and almost simple groups
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Chair: M. C. TAMBURINI
15.30 J. THOMPSON 16.10 F. FUMAGALLI 16.30 R. BRYANT
Chair: G. TRAUSTASON
17.40 A. JUHASZ
18.30 S. MATTAREI 19.00 H. HEINEKEN
Friday, April 2
Chair: L. DI MARTINO
15.30 A. RHEMTULLA
16.20 ED BERTRAM
Chair: M. BILIOTTI
17.30 H. SMITH 18.20 A. BIALOSTOCKI 19.10 N. GAVIOLI
Saturday, April 3
Chair: G. ZACHER
09.30 10.20 11.30
12.20
C. PRAEGER A. LEV A. REGEV
G. KAPLAN
Chair: M. HERZOG
15.30 16.20
16.40
A. LUCCHINI E. SPINELLI
A. MANN
Finite projective planes The Quillen complex of a solvable group Groups acting on free Lie algebras
On elements of finite order in certain quotients of amalgamated free products and HNN-extentions Lie algebras with a nonsingular derivation Central series and norm
Ordered groups in which all convex jumps are cen-tral Conjugacy classes and centralizers in finite groups
Embedding groups in simple groups On the Erdos-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem Just infinite periodic Lie algebras and pro-p-groups
Limits of finite vertex-primitive graphs On the covering numbers of finite groups On Hook number identities and some characters of the symmetric group The existence of normal and characteristic sub-groups in finite groups
The X-Dirichlet polynomial of a finite group Modular group algebras with maximal lower Lie-nilpotency indices Probabilistic Z-functions for profinite and arith-metic groups
List of Participants
Erhard AICHINGER Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Zvi ARAD Bar-Ilan University and Netanya Academic College, Israel
Marina AVITABILE U niversita di L' Aquila, Italy
Yiftach BARNEA Imperial College, U.K.
Claudio BARTOLONE Universita di Palermo, Italy
Yakov BERKOVICH University of Haifa, Israel
Ed BERTRAM University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
Arie BIALOSTOCKI University of Idaho, U.S.A.
Mariagrazia BIANCHI Universita di Milano, Italy
Mauro BILIOTTI Universita di Leece, Italy
Adalbert BOVDI University of Debrecen, Hungary
Victor BOVDI University of Debrecen, Hungary
Roger BRYANT University of Manchester, U.K.
Daniela BUBBOLONI Universita di Firenze, Italy
Alan CAMINA University of East Anglia, U.K.
Andrea CARANTI Universita di Trento, Italy
Francesco CATINO Universita di Leece, Italy
Rara CELENTANI Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Vladimir CEPULIC University of Zagreb, Croatia
David CHILLAG Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Marco COSTANTINI Universita di Trento, Italy
Mauro COSTANTINI Universita di Padova, Italy
Francesca DALLA VOLTA Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Erika DAMIAN Universita di Brescia, Italy
Alma D' ANIELLO Universita di Napoli, Italy
Ulderico DARDANO Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Costantino DELIZIA Universita di Salerno, Italy
Eloisa DETOMI Universita di Padova, Italy
Lino DI MARTINO Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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Cristina DI PIETRO Universita di L'Aquila, Italy
Silvio DOLFI Universita di Firenze, Italy
Bayanbat ENKHGEREL Verebely L'aszl'o Technikum, Hungary
Clara FRANCHI Universita Cattolica del Sacra Cuore, Italy
Gregory FREIMAN Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Francesco FUMAGALLI Universita di Firenze, Italy
Norberta GAVIOLI Universita di L'Aquila, Italy
Anna GILLIO Universita di Milano, Italy
Theo GRUNDHOFER Universitiit Wiirzburg, Germany
Hermann HEINEKEN Universitiit Wiirzburg, Germany
Wolfgang HERFORT Technische Universitiit Wien, Austria
Marcel HERZOG Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bertram HUPPERT Universitiit Mainz, Germany
Marty ISAACS University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
Zvonimir JANKO Universitiit Heidelberg, Germany
Arye JUHASZ Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Gil KAPLAN The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Jaffo, Israel
Otto KEGEL Albert-Ludwigs Universitiit, Germany
Antonella LEONE Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Arieh LEV The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Jaffo, Israel
Patrizia LONGOBARDI Universita di Salerno, Italy
Andrea LUCCHINI Universita di Brescia, Italy
Maria Silvia LUCIDO Universita di Udine, Italy
Mario MAIN ARDIS Universita di Udine, Italy
Mercede MAJ Universita di Salerno, Italy
A vinoam MANN The Hebrew University, Israel
Sandra MATTAREI Universita di Trento, Italy
Peter MAYR Johannes Kepler Universitii Linz, Austria
Federico MENEGAZZO Universita di Padova, Italy
Maddalena MICCOLI Universita di Leece, Italy
Giuseppe MICELLI Universita di Leece, Italy
Maria Elena MILITO PAGLIARA Universita di Padova, Italy
Valerio MONTI Universita di Roma, Italy
Alessandro MONTINARO Universita di Leece, Italy
Primoz MORAVEC IMPM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marta MORICI Universita di Bologna, Italy
PARTICIPANTS XXV
Misha MUZYCHUK Netanya Academic College, Israel
Chiara NICOTERA Universita di Salerno, Italy
Emanuele PACIFIC! Universita di Udine, Italy
Elisabetta PASTOR! Universita di Firenze, Italy
Cheryl PRAEGER University of Western Australia, Australia
Andrea PREVITALI Universita Insubria, Italy
Amitai REGEV The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Akbar RHEMTULLA University of Alberta, Canada
Derek ROBINSON University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Paolo SANTANIELLO Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy
Carlo Maria SCOPPOLA Universita di L'Aquila, Italy
Luigi SERENA Universita di Firenze, Italy
Carmela SICA Universita di Salerno, Italy
Salvatore SICILIANO Universita di Leece, Italy
Howard SMITH Bucknell University, U.S.A.
Ernesto SPINELLI Universita di Leece, Italy
Chiara TAMBURINI Universita Cattolica del Sacra Cuore, Italy
John THOMPSON University of Florida, U.S.A.
Cesarina TIBILETTI MARCHIONNA Universita di Milano, Italy
Maria TOTA Universita di Salerno, Italy
Gunnar TRAUSTASON Lund University, Sweden
Luca URSELLI Universita di Leece, Italy
Maria Alessandra VACCARO Universita di Palermo, Italy
Michael VAUGHAN-LEE Oxford University, U.K.
Evgenii VDOVIN Universita di Padova, Italy
Thomas WEIGEL Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Giovanni ZACHER Universita di Padova, Italy
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399 Dominique Arlettaz and Kathryn Hess, Editors, An Alpine anthology of homotopy theory, 2006
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390 Sudhir Ghorpade, Hema Srinivasan, and Jugal Verma, Editors, Commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, 2005
389 James Eells, Etienne Ghys, Mikhail Lyubich, Jacob Palis, and Jose Seade, Editors, Geometry and dynamics, 2005
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380 Andreas Blass and Yi Zhang, Editors, Logic and its applications, 2005 379 Dominic P. Clemence and Guoqing Tang, Editors, Mathematical studies in
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366 Bernheim Boof3-Bavnbek, Gerd Grubb, and Krzysztof P. Wojciechowski, Editors, Spectral geometry of manifolds with boundary and decompositon of manifolds, 2005
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364 Mark Agranovsky, Lavi Karp, David Shoikhet, and Lawrence Zalcman, Editors, Complex analysis and dynamical systems, 2004
363 Anthony To-Ming Lau and Volker Runde, Editors, Banach algebras and their applications, 2004
362 Carlos Concha, Raul Manasevich, Gunther Uhlmann, and MichaelS. Vogelius, Editors, Partial differential equations and inverse problems, 2004
361 Ali Enayat and Roman Kossak, Editors, Nonstandard models of arithmetic and set theory, 2004
360 Alexei G. Myasnikov and Vladimir Shpilrain, Editors, Group theory, statistics, and cryptography, 2004
359 S. Dostoglou and P. Ehrlich, Editors, Advances in differential geometry and general relativity, 2004
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