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McSorley, J. P. "Topics in group theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376929.
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Isenrich, Claudio Llosa. "Kähler groups and Geometric Group Theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4a7ab097-4de5-4b72-8fd6-41ff8861ffae.
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In this thesis we study Kähler groups and their connections to Geometric Group Theory. This work presents substantial progress on three central questions in the field: (1) Which subgroups of direct products of surface groups are Kähler? (2) Which Kähler groups admit a classifying space with finite (n-1)-skeleton but no classifying space with finitely many n-cells? (3) Is it possible to give explicit finite presentations for any of the groups constructed in response to Question 2? Question 1 was raised by Delzant and Gromov. Question 2 is intimately related to Question 1: the non-trivial examples of Kähler subgroups of direct products of surface groups never admit a classifying space with finite skeleton. The only known source of non-trivial examples for Questions 1 and 2 are fundamental groups of fibres of holomorphic maps from a direct product of closed surfaces onto an elliptic curve; the first such construction is due to Dimca, Papadima and Suciu. Question 3 was posed by Suciu in the context of these examples. In this thesis we: provide the first constraints on Kähler subdirect products of surface groups (Theorem 7.3.1); develop new construction methods for Kähler groups from maps onto higher-dimensional complex tori (Section 6.1); apply these methods to obtain irreducible examples of Kähler subgroups of direct products of surface groups which arise from maps onto higher-dimensional tori and use them to show that our conditions in Theorem 7.3.1 are minimal (Theorem A); apply our construction methods to produce irreducible examples of Kähler groups that (i) have a classifying space with finite (n-1)-skeleton but no classifying space with finite n-skeleton and (ii) do not have a subgroup of finite index which embeds in a direct product of surface groups (Theorem 8.3.1); provide a new proof of Biswas, Mj and Pancholi's generalisation of Dimca, Papadima and Suciu's construction to more general maps onto elliptic curves (Theorem 4.3.2) and introduce invariants that distinguish many of the groups obtained from this construction (Theorem 4.6.2); and, construct explicit finite presentations for Dimca, Papadima and Suciu's groups thereby answering Question 3 (Theorem 5.4.4)).
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Evans, D. M. "Some topics in group theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355748.
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Alp, Murat. "GAP, crossed inodules, Cat'1-groups : applications of computational group theory." Thesis, Bangor University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361168.
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Grenham, Dermot. "Some topics in nilpotent group theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329954.
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Cornwell, Christopher R. "On the Combinatorics of Certain Garside Semigroups." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1381.pdf.
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Gatward, Sally Morrell. "On a new construction in group theory." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2342.
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My supervisors Ian Chiswell and Thomas M¨uller have found a new class of groups of functions defined on intervals of the real line, with multiplication defined by analogy with multiplication in free groups. I have extended this idea to functions defined on a densely ordered abelian group. This doesn’t give rise to a class of groups straight away, but using the idea of exponentiation from a paper by Myasnikov, Remeslennikov and Serbin, I have formed another class of groups, in which each group contains a subgroup isomorphic to one of Chiswell and M¨uller’s groups. After the introduction, the second chapter defines the set that contains the group and describes the multiplication for elements within the set. In chapter three I define exponentiation, which leads on to chapter four, in which I describe how it is used to find my groups. Then in chapter five I describe the structure of the centralisers of certain elements within the groups.
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Nicholson, Julia. "Otto Hölder and the development of group theory and Galois theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333485.
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Hert, Theresa Marie. "An efficient presentation of PGL(2,p)." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/690.
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Bavuma, Yanga. "Some combinatorial aspects in algebraic topology and geometric group theory." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29763.
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The present Msc thesis deals with classical topics of topology and it has been written, referring to [C. Kosniowski, Introduction to Algebraic Topology, Cambridge University Press, 1980, Cambridge], which is a well known textbook of algebraic topology. It has been selected a list of main exercises from this reference, whose solutions were not directly available, or subject to differerent methods. In fact combinatorial methods have been preferred and the result is a self-contained dissertation on the theory of the fundamental group and of the coverings. Finally, there are some recent problems in geometric group theory which are related to the presence of finitely presented groups which appear naturally as fundamental groups.
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Yeo, Michelle SoYeong. "CONSTRUCTION OF FINITE GROUP." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/592.
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The main goal of this project is to present my investigation of finite images of the progenitor 2^(*n) : N for various N and several values of n. We construct each image by using the technique of double coset enumeration and give a proof of the isomorphism type of the image. We obtain the group 7^2: D_6 as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^(*14) : D_14, we obtain the group 2^4 : (5 : 4) as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^(*5) : (5 : 4), we obtain the group (10 x10) : ((3 x 4) : 2) as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^(*15) : (15x4), we obtain the group PGL(2; 7) as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^7 : D_14, we obtain the group S_6 as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^5 : (5 : 4), and we obtain the group S_7 as a homomorphic image of the progenitor 2^(*15) : (15 : 4). Also, have given some unsuccessful progenitors.
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Kilgour, Calum Wallace. "Using pictures in combinatorial group and semigroup theory." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265965.
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Fennessey, Eric James. "Some applications of geometric techniques in combinatorial group theory." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1989. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6159/.
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Combinatorial group theory abounds with geometrical techniques. In this thesis we apply some of them to three distinct areas. In Chapter 1 we present all of the techniques and background material neccessary to read chapters 2,3,4. We begin by defining complexes with involutary edges and define coverings of these. We then discuss equivalences between complexes and use these in §§1.3 and 1.4 to give a way (the level method) of simplifying complexes and an application of this method (Theorem 1.3). We then discuss star-complexes of complexes. Next we present background material on diagrams and pictures. The final section in the chapter deals with SQ-universality. The.basic discussion of complexes is taken from notes, by Pride, on complexes without involutary edges, and modified by myself to cover complexes with involution. Chapters 2,3, and 4 are presented in the order that the work for them was done. Chapters 2,3, alld 4 are intended (given the material in chapter 1) to be self contained, and (iv) each has a full introduction. In Chapter 2 we use diagrams and pictures to study groups with the following structure. (a) Let r be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E. We assume that no vertex of r is isolated. (b) For each vertex VEV there is a non-trivial group Gv ' (c) For each edge e-{u,v}EE there is a set Se of cyclically reduced elements of Gu*Gv , each of length at least two. We define Ge to be the quotient of Gu*Gv by the normal closure of Se. We let G be the quotient of *Gv by the normal closure of VEV S- USe. For convenience, we write eEE The above is a generalization ofa situation studied by Pride [35], where each Gv was infinite cyclic.' Let e-{u,v} be an edge of r. We will say that Ge has property-Wk if no non-trivial element of Gu*Gv of free product length less than or equal to 2k is in the kernel of the natural epimorphism (v) We will work with one of the following: (I) Each Ge has property-W2 (II) r is triangle-free and each Ge has property-WI' Assuming that (I) or (II) holds we: (i) prove a Freihietssatz for these groups; (ii) give sufficient conditions for the groups to be SQ-universal; (iii) prove a result which allows us to give long exact sequences relating the (co)-homology G to the (co)-homology of the groups The work in Chapter 2 is in some senses the least original. The proofs are extensions of proofs given in [35] and [39] for the case when each Gv is infinite cyclic. However. there are some technical difficulties which we had to overcome. In chapter 3 we use the two ideas of star-complexes and coverings to look at NEC-groups. An NEC (Non-Euclidean Crystallographic) group is a discontinuous group of isometries (some of which may be (vi) orientation reversing) of the Non-Euclidean plane. According to Yilkie [46], a finitely generated NEC-group with compact orbit space has a presentation as follows: Involutary generators: Yij (i,j)EZo Non-involutary generators: 6i (iElf), tk (l~~r) (*) Defining paths: (YijYij+,)mij (iElf, l~j~n(i)-l) where In Hoare, Karrass and Solitar [22] it is shown that a subgroup of finite index in a group with a presentation of the form (*), has itself a presentation of the form (*). In [22] the same authors show that a subgroup of infinite ingex in a group with a presentation of the form (*) is a free product of groups of the following types: (A) Cyclic groups. (vii) (B) Groups with presentations of the form Xl' ... 'Xn involutary. (e) Groups with presentations of the form Xi (iEZ) involutary. We define what we mean by an NEe-complex. (This involves a structural re$triction on the form of the star-complex of the complex.) It is obvious from the definition that this class of complexes is clo$ed under coverings, so that the class of fundamental groups of NEe-complexes is trivially closed under taking subgroups. We then obtain structure theorems for both finite and infinite NEe-complexes. We show that the fundamental group of a finite NEe-complex has a presentation of the form (*) and that the fundamental group of an infinite NEe-complex is a free product of groups of the forms (A). (B) and (e) above. We then use coverings to derive some of the results on normal subgroups of NEe-groups given in [5] and [6]. , (viii) In chapter 4 we use the techniques of coverings and diagrams. to stue,iy the SQ-universau'ty of Coxeter groups. This is a problem due to B.H. Neumann (unpublished). see [40]. A Coxeter pair is a 2-tup1e (r.~) where r is a graph (with vertex set V(r) and edge set E(r» and ~ is a map from E(r) to {2.3.4 •.•• }. We associate with (r.~) the Coxeter group c(r,~) defined by the presentation tr(r,~)-
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Wharton, Elizabeth. "The model theory of certain infinite soluble groups." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7bd8d05b-4ff6-4326-8463-f896e2862e25.
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This thesis is concerned with aspects of the model theory of infinite soluble groups. The results proved lie on the border between group theory and model theory: the questions asked are of a model-theoretic nature but the techniques used are mainly group-theoretic in character. We present a characterization of those groups contained in the universal closure of a restricted wreath product U wr G, where U is an abelian group of zero or finite square-free exponent and G is a torsion-free soluble group with a bound on the class of its nilpotent subgroups. For certain choices of G we are able to use this characterization to prove further results about these groups; in particular, results related to the decidability of their universal theories. The latter part of this work consists of a number of independent but related topics. We show that if G is a finitely generated abelian-by-metanilpotent group and H is elementarily equivalent to G then the subgroups gamma_n(G) and gamma_n(H) are elementarily equivalent, as are the quotient groups G/gamma_n(G) and G/gamma_n(H). We go on to consider those groups universally equivalent to F_2(VN_c), where the free groups of the variety V are residually finite p-groups for infinitely many primes p, distinguishing between the cases when c = 1 and when c > 2. Finally, we address some important questions concerning the theories of free groups in product varieties V_k · · ·V_1, where V_i is a nilpotent variety whose free groups are torsion-free; in particular we address questions about the decidability of the elementary and universal theories of such groups. Results mentioned in both of the previous two paragraphs have applications here.
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Silberstein, Aaron. "Anabelian Intersection Theory." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10141.
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Let F be a field finitely generated and of transcendence degree 2 over \(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}\). We describe a correspondence between the smooth algebraic surfaces X defined over \(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}\) with field of rational functions F and Florian Pop’s geometric sets of prime divisors on \(Gal(\bar{F}/F)\), which are purely group-theoretical objects. This allows us to give a strong anabelian theorem for these surfaces. As a corollary, for each number field K, we give a method to construct infinitely many profinite groups \(\Gamma\) such that \(Out_{cont} (\Gamma)\) is isomorphic to \(Gal(\bar{K}/K)\), and we find a host of new categories which answer the Question of Ihara/Conjecture of Oda-Matsumura.Mathematics
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Vaintrob, Dmitry. "Mirror symmetry and the K theory of a p-adic group." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104578.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Let G be a split, semisimple p-adic group. We construct a derived localization functor Loc : ... from the compactified category of [BK2] associated to G to the category of equivariant sheaves on the Bruhat-Tits building whose stalks have finite-multiplicity isotypic components as representations of the stabilizer. Our construction is motivated by the "coherent-constructible correspondence" functor in toric mirror symmetry and a construction of [CCC]. We show that Loc has a number of useful properties, including the fact that the sections ... compactifying the finitely-generated representation V. We also construct a depth by Dmitry A. Vaintrob.
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Ketcham, Kwang B. "Group Frames and Partially Ranked Data." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/19.
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We give an overview of finite group frames and their applications to calculating summary statistics from partially ranked data, drawing upon the work of Rachel Cranfill (2009). We also provide a summary of the representation theory of compact Lie groups. We introduce both of these concepts as possible avenues beyond finite group representations, and also to suggest exploration into calculating summary statistics on Hilbert spaces using representations of Lie groups acting upon those spaces.
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Joubert, Paul. "Geometric actions of the absolute Galois group." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2508.
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Thesis (MSc (Mathematics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.This thesis gives an introduction to some of the ideas originating from A. Grothendieck's 1984 manuscript Esquisse d'un programme. Most of these ideas are related to a new geometric approach to studying the absolute Galois group over the rationals by considering its action on certain geometric objects such as dessins d'enfants (called stick figures in this thesis) and the fundamental groups of certain moduli spaces of curves. I start by defining stick figures and explaining the connection between these innocent combinatorial objects and the absolute Galois group. I then proceed to give some background on moduli spaces. This involves describing how Teichmuller spaces and mapping class groups can be used to address the problem of counting the possible complex structures on a compact surface. In the last chapter I show how this relates to the absolute Galois group by giving an explicit description of the action of the absolute Galois group on the fundamental group of a particularly simple moduli space. I end by showing how this description was used by Y. Ihara to prove that the absolute Galois group is contained in the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group.
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Pearce, Geoffrey. "Transitive decompositions of graphs." University of Western Australia. School of Mathematics and Statistics, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0087.
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A transitive decomposition of a graph is a partition of the arc set such that there exists a group of automorphisms of the graph which preserves and acts transitively on the partition. This turns out to be a very broad idea, with several striking connections with other areas of mathematics. In this thesis we first develop some general theory of transitive decompositions, and in particular we illustrate some of the more interesting connections with certain combinatorial and geometric structures. We then give complete, or nearly complete, structural characterisations of certain classes of transitive decompositions preserved by a group with a rank 3 action on vertices (such a group has exactly two orbits on ordered pairs of distinct vertices). The main classes of rank 3 groups we study (namely those which are imprimitive, or primitive of grid type) are derived in some way from 2-transitive groups (that is, groups which are transitive on ordered pairs of distinct vertices), and the results we achieve make use of the classification by Sibley in 2004 of transitive decompositions preserved by a 2-transitive group.
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Adovasio, Ben. "A Character Theory Free Proof of Burnside's paqb Theorem." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1337975956.
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Melhuish, Kathleen Mary. "The Design and Validation of a Group Theory Concept Inventory." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2490.
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Within undergraduate mathematics education, there are few validated instruments designed for large-scale usage. The Group Concept Inventory (GCI) was created as an instrument to evaluate student conceptions related to introductory group theory topics. The inventory was created in three phases: domain analysis, question creation, and field-testing. The domain analysis phase included using an expert consensus protocol to arrive at the topics to be assessed, analyzing curriculum, and reviewing literature. From this analysis, items were created, evaluated, and field-tested. First, 383 students answered open-ended versions of the question set. The questions were converted to multiple-choice format from these responses and disseminated to an additional 476 students over two rounds. Through follow-up interviews intended for validation, and test analysis processes, the questions were refined to best target conceptions and strengthen validity measures. The GCI consists of seventeen questions, each targeting a different concept in introductory group theory. The results from this study are broken into three papers. The first paper reports on the methodology for creating the GCI with the goal of providing a model for building valid concept inventories. The second paper provides replication results and critiques of previous studies by leveraging three GCI questions (on cyclic groups, subgroups, and isomorphism) that have been adapted from prior studies. The final paper introduces the GCI for use by instructors and mathematics departments with emphasis on how it can be leveraged to investigate their students' understanding of group theory concepts. Through careful creation and extensive field-testing, the GCI has been shown to be a meaningful instrument with powerful ability to explore student understanding around group theory concepts at the large-scale.
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George, Timothy Edward. "Symmetric representation of elements of finite groups." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3105.
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The purpose of the thesis is to give an alternative and more efficient method for working with finite groups by constructing finite groups as homomorphic images of progenitors. The method introduced can be applied to all finite groups that possess symmetric generating sets of involutions. Such groups include all finite non-abelian simple groups, which can then be constructed by the technique of manual double coset enumeration.
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Sale, Andrew W. "The length of conjugators in solvable groups and lattices of semisimple Lie groups." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ea21dab2-2da1-406a-bd4f-5457ab02a011.
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The conjugacy length function of a group Γ determines, for a given a pair of conjugate elements u,v ∈ Γ, an upper bound for the shortest γ in Γ such that uγ = γv, relative to the lengths of u and v. This thesis focuses on estimating the conjugacy length function in certain finitely generated groups. We first look at a collection of solvable groups. We see how the lamplighter groups have a linear conjugacy length function; we find a cubic upper bound for free solvable groups; for solvable Baumslag--Solitar groups it is linear, while for a larger family of abelian-by-cyclic groups we get either a linear or exponential upper bound; also we show that for certain polycyclic metabelian groups it is at most exponential. We also investigate how taking a wreath product effects conjugacy length, as well as other group extensions. The Magnus embedding is an important tool in the study of free solvable groups. It embeds a free solvable group into a wreath product of a free abelian group and a free solvable group of shorter derived length. Within this thesis we show that the Magnus embedding is a quasi-isometric embedding. This result is not only used for obtaining an upper bound on the conjugacy length function of free solvable groups, but also for giving a lower bound for their Lp compression exponents. Conjugacy length is also studied between certain types of elements in lattices of higher-rank semisimple real Lie groups. In particular we obtain linear upper bounds for the length of a conjugator from the ambient Lie group within certain families of real hyperbolic elements and unipotent elements. For the former we use the geometry of the associated symmetric space, while for the latter algebraic techniques are employed.
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Hicks, Katrina. "The representation theory of some groups with blocks of defect group Câ†3 times Câ†3 in characteristic three." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239319.
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Montanaro, William M. Jr. "Character Degree Graphs of Almost Simple Groups." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398345504.
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Woodruff, Benjamin M. "Statistical Properties of Thompson's Group and Random Pseudo Manifolds." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd854.pdf.
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Oberholzer, Ria M. "On subnormal subgroups in factorized groups." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50050.
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Thesis (MSc) -- Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis we give a survey of research done on a problem on subnormal subgroups in factorized groups G = AB, where A and B are two subgroups of G with H a subgroup of A n B which is subnormal in both A and B. It is of interest to know whether or not such a subgroup H will also be subnormal in G. During the past twenty five to thirty years some positive results were obtained in the case where G is a finite group. This was mainly due to work done by Maier and Wielandt, with results by Sidki and Casolo following shortly afterwards. Counterexamples in the case of infinite groups seemed to be extremely hard to construct. For the infinite group case, some positive results were obtained through contributions by amongst others Stonehewer, Franciosi, de Giovanni and Sysak. Most recently some alternative proofs were given by Fransman.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis poog ons om 'n oorsig te gee van navorsing uitgevoer oor 'n probleem rakende subnormale ondergroepe van 'n groep G = AB wat uitgedruk kan word as 'n produk van twee ondergroepe A en B. Daar word gepoog om te bepaal vir watter klasse van groepe dit volg dat as die ondergroep H van A se deursnede met B subnormaal is in beide A en B, sal dit impliseer dat H ook subnormaal in die groep G sal wees. Gedurende die afgelope vyf-en-twintig na dertig jaar is positiewe resultate bewys VIr eindige sodanige groepe deur veralouteurs soos Maier en Wielandt, gevolg deur Sidki en Casolo. Dit blyk dat dit nie maklik is om teenvoorbeelde te vind vir die oneindige geval nie. Daar is wel positiewe resultate gelewer vanweë bydraes deur onder andere Stonehewer, Franciosi, de Giovanni en Sysak. Meer onlangs is ook alternatiewe bewyse gegee deur Fransman.
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Aivazidis, Stefanos. "On the subgroup permutability degree of some finite simple groups." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8899.
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Consider a finite group G and subgroups H;K of G. We say that H and K permute if HK = KH and call H a permutable subgroup if H permutes with every subgroup of G. A group G is called quasi-Dedekind if all subgroups of G are permutable. We can define, for every finite group G, an arithmetic quantity that measures the probability that two subgroups (chosen uniformly at random with replacement) permute and we call this measure the subgroup permutability degree of G. This measure quantifies, among others, how close a finite group is to being quasi-Dedekind, or, equivalently, nilpotent with modular subgroup lattice. The main body of this thesis is concerned with the behaviour of the subgroup permutability degree of the two families of finite simple groups PSL2(2n), and Sz(q). In both cases the subgroups of the two families of simple groups are completely known and we shall use this fact to establish that the subgroup permutability degree in each case vanishes asymptotically as n or q respectively tends to infinity. The final chapter of the thesis deviates from the main line to examine groups, called F-groups, which behave like nilpotent groups with respect to the Frattini subgroup of quotients. Finally, we present in the Appendix joint research on the distribution of the density of maximal order elements in general linear groups and offer code for computations in GAP related to permutability.
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Summers, Andrew. "The Influence of Subgroup Structure on Finite Groups Which are the Product of Two Subgroups." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1620058166407179.
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Maurer, Kendall Nicole. "Minimally Simple Groups and Burnside's Theorem." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1271041194.
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Davidson, Peter John. "Geometric methods in the study of Pride groups and relative presentations." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/230/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Puente, Philip C. "Crystallographic Complex Reflection Groups and the Braid Conjecture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011877/.
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Crystallographic complex reflection groups are generated by reflections about affine hyperplanes in complex space and stabilize a full rank lattice. These analogs of affine Weyl groups have infinite order and were classified by V.L. Popov in 1982. The classical Braid theorem (first established by E. Artin and E. Brieskorn) asserts that the Artin group of a reflection group (finite or affine Weyl) gives the fundamental group of regular orbits. In other words, the fundamental group of the space with reflecting hyperplanes removed has a presentation mimicking that of the Coxeter presentation; one need only remove relations giving generators finite order. N.V Dung used a semi-cell construction to prove the Braid theorem for affine Weyl groups. Malle conjectured that the Braid theorem holds for all crystallographic complex reflection groups after constructing Coxeter-like reflection presentations. We show how to extend Dung's ideas to crystallographic complex reflection groups and then extend the Braid theorem to some groups in the infinite family [G(r,p,n)]. The proof requires a new classification of crystallographic groups in the infinite family that fail the Steinberg theorem.
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MacKinnon, Benjamin B. "The Automorphism Group of the Halved Cube." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4609.
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An n-dimensional halved cube is a graph whose vertices are the binary strings of length n, where two vertices are adjacent if and only if they differ in exactly two positions. It can be regarded as the graph whose vertex set is one partite set of the n-dimensional hypercube, with an edge joining vertices at hamming distance two. In this thesis we compute the automorphism groups of the halved cubes by embedding them in R n and realizing the automorphism group as a subgroup of GLn(R). As an application we show that a halved cube is a circulant graph if and only if its dimension of is at most four.
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Iverson, Nate. "A Phan-like theorem for orthogonal groups in even characteristic." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1280251081.
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McHugh, John. "Monomial Characters of Finite Groups." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/572.
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An abundance of information regarding the structure of a finite group can be obtained by studying its irreducible characters. Of particular interest are monomial characters – those induced from a linear character of some subgroup – since Brauer has shown that any irreducible character of a group can be written as an integral linear combination of monomial characters. Our primary focus is the class of M-groups, those groups all of whose irreducible characters are monomial. A classical theorem of Taketa asserts that an M-group is necessarily solvable, and Dade proved that every solvable group can be embedded as a subgroup of an M-group. After discussing results related to M-groups, we will construct explicit families of solvable groups that cannot be embedded as subnormal subgroups of any M-group. We also discuss groups possessing a unique non-monomial irreducible character, and prove that such a group cannot be simple.
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Bergeron, Maxime. "On CAT(0) aspects of geometric group theory and some applications to geometric superrigidity." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110571.
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Since their popularization by Gromov in the eighties, CAT(0) metric spaces of bounded curvature as defined by Alexandrov have been the locus of great progress in infinite group theory. Surveying ideas and constructions of geometric group theory, we express a bias towards groups acting on structures of this kind. As such, swiftly acquainting the reader with the theory of CAT(0) spaces, we provide a variety of examples obtained by gluing together families of convex polyhedra along their isometric faces. In this context, Gromov's link condition provides a local-to-global framework for non-positive curvature. Combining this with tools from knot theory, such as the Dehn complex of an alternating knot projection, we demonstrate a result of Wise which states that the fundamental group of an alternating link complement is also the fundamental group of a non-positively curved complex. Using similar ideas, we also mention a construction of Wise relating any finitely generated group to the fundamental groups of some non-positively curved complexes. Besides providing such "explicit" constructions, we make use of tower lifts of combinatorial maps to prove Bridson and Haefliger's abstract result that every subgroup of the fundamental group of a non-positively curved two dimensional polyhedral complexes is the fundamental group of some compact non-positively curved two dimensional polyhedral complex. Then, having well established the inherent structure of CAT(0) spaces, we focus on classifying their isometries, group actions upon them, and how they extend to the visual boundary. The combinatorial approach is especially effective here when we prove Haglund's result that cell-preserving isometries of CAT(0) cube complexes are semi-simple.Finally, using the theory of generalized harmonic maps, we demonstrate the superrigidity result of Monod, Gelander, Karlsson and Margulis for reduced actions with no globally fixed point of irreducible uniform lattices in locally compact, compactly generated topological groups of higher rank on complete CAT(0) spaces.Depuis leur popularisation par Gromov durant les années quatre-vingt, la théorie des espaces métriques à courbure bornée, dits CAT(0), fut à la base de grandes percées dans notre compréhension des groupes infinis. Survolant des constructions de la théorie géométrique des groupes, nous portons donc une attention particulière aux actions sur les espaces CAT(0) et commençcons notre traité par la construction de complexes CAT(0) obtenus en identifiant certaines faces isométriques d'ensembles de polyèdres convexes. Dans ce contexte, le critère du lien de Gromov nous permet de caractériser la courbure nonpositive globale de manière locale. Combinant ces idées à certaines techniques de la théorie des noeuds, nous démontrons un théorème de Wise reliant tout groupe fondamental du complément d'un entrelac alternants à un complexe de courbure nonpositive. Nous relatons aussi une construction similaire de Wise permettant de relier tout groupe présenté de manière finie au groupe fondamental d'un complexe à courbure nonpositive. Outre ces constructions concrètes, nous utilisons les tours de relèvement d'applications combinatoires afin de démontrer un théorème abstrait de Bridson et Haefliger concernant les sous-groupes de groupes fondamentaux de complexes à courbure non-positive. Ayant établi la structure des espaces CAT(0), nous passons en second lieu à la classification de leurs isométries et de leurs extensions à la bordification de ces espaces. L'approche combinatoire est d'une aide particulière lorsque nous prouvons le résultat de Haglund concernant la semi-simplicité d'isométries de complexes cubiques et offre un contraste par rapport à un résultat analogue de Brisdon dans le contexte des complexes polyhédraux. Finalement, en faisant usage de la théorie des applications harmoniques généralisées, nous démontrons le résultat de superrigidité de Monod, Gelander, Karlsson et Margulis pour les actions réduites sans point fixe sur les espaces métriques CAT(0) complets de réseaux uniformes et irréductibles dans des groupes de rang supérieur localement compacts engendrés par un ensemble de générateurs compact.
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Hamilton, Martin. "Finiteness conditions in group cohomology." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/182/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Housley, Matthew L. "Conjugacy Classes of the Piecewise Linear Group." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1442.pdf.
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Ioannou, M. "Conceptual and learning issues in mathematics undergraduates' first encounter with group theory : a commognitive analysis." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/39453/.
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Bounds, Jordan. "On the quasi-isometric rigidity of a class of right-angled Coxeter groups." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1561561078356503.
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Holik, Nicklos L. III. "NONSTANDARD HULLS OF GROUPS." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1176409770.
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Aafif, Amal Boyer Robert Paul Krandick Werner J. "Non-commutative harmonic analysis on certain semi-direct product groups /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1767.
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Song, Sung Yell. "The character tables of certain association schemes /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662147808.
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Baccari, Angelica. "Simple Groups, Progenitors, and Related Topics." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/736.
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The foundation of the work of this thesis is based around the involutory progenitor and the finite homomorphic images found therein. This process is developed by Robert T. Curtis and he defines it as 2^{*n} :N {pi w | pi in N, w} where 2^{*n} denotes a free product of n copies of the cyclic group of order 2 generated by involutions. We repeat this process with different control groups and a different array of possible relations to discover interesting groups, such as sporadic, linear, or unitary groups, to name a few. Predominantly this work was produced from transitive groups in 6,10,12, and 18 letters. Which led to identify some appealing groups for this project, such as Janko group J1, Symplectic groups S(4,3) and S(6,2), Mathieu group M12 and some linear groups such as PGL2(7) and L2(11) . With this information, we performed double coset enumeration on some of our findings, M12 over L_2(11) and L_2(31) over D15. We will also prove their isomorphism types with the help of the Jordan-Holder theorem, which aids us in defining the make up of the group. Some examples that we will encounter are the extensions of L_2(31)(center) 2 and A5:2^2.
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Aubad, Ali. "On commuting involution graphs of certain finite groups." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/on-commuting-involution-graphs-of-certain-finite-groups(009c80f5-b0d6-4164-aefc-f783f74c80f1).html.
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Pant, Sujan. "Structural results in group von Neumann algebra." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5822.
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Chifan, Kida, and myself introduced a new class of non-amenable groups denoted by ${\bf NC} \cap {\bf Quot}(\mathcal C_{rss})$ which gives rise to \emph{prime} von Neumann algebras. This means that for every $\G\in {\bf NC} \cap {\bf Quot}(\mathcal C_{rss})$ its group von Neumann algebra $L(\G)$ cannot be decomposed as a tensor product of diffuse von Neumann algebras. The class ${\bf NC} \cap {\bf Quot}(\mathcal C_{rss})$ is fairly large as it contains many natural examples of groups, some intensively studied in various areas of mathematics: all infinite central quotients of pure surface braid groups; all mapping class groups of (punctured) surfaces of genus $0,1,2$; most Torelli groups and Johnson kernels of (punctured) surfaces of genus $0,1,2$; and, all groups hyperbolic relative to finite families of residually finite, exact, infinite, proper subgroups.
In a separate investigation, de Santiago and myself were able to extend the previous techniques that allowed us to eliminate the usage of the {\bf NC} condition and ultimately classify all the possible tensor factorization of the von Neumann algebras of groups that belong solely to ${\bf Quot}(\mathcal C_{rss})$. This provides a far-reaching generalization of the aforementioned primeness results; for instance, we were able to show that if $\Gamma$ is a poly-hyperbolic group, then whenever we have a tensor decomposition $L(\G)\cong P_1\bar\otimes P_2 \bar \otimes \cdots \bar\otimes P_n$ then there exists a product decomposition $\G\cong \G_1\times \G_2 \times \cdots \times \G_n$ with $\G_i \in {\bf Quot}(\mathcal C_{rss})$ and, up to amplifications, we have $L(\G_i)\cong P_i$ for all $i=1,n$.
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Kreighbaum, Kevin M. "Combinatorial Problems Related to the Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1270830566.
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Klein, Tom. "Filtered ends of pairs of groups." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Wheeler, Jessica. "Instructing Group Theory Concepts from Pre-Kindergarten to College through Movement Activities." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461184131.
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Weighill, Thomas. "Bifibrational duality in non-abelian algebra and the theory of databases." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96125.
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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis we develop a self-dual categorical approach to some topics in non-abelian algebra, which is based on replacing the framework of a category with that of a category equipped with a functor to it. We also make some first steps towards a possible link between this theory and the theory of databases in computer science. Both of these theories are based around the study of Grothendieck bifibrations and their generalisations. The main results in this thesis concern correspondences between certain structures on a category which are relevant to the study of categories of non-abelian group-like structures, and functors over that category. An investigation of these correspondences leads to a system of dual axioms on a functor, which can be considered as a solution to the proposal of Mac Lane in his 1950 paper "Duality for Groups" that a self-dual setting for formulating and proving results for groups be found. The part of the thesis concerned with the theory of databases is based on a recent approach by Johnson and Rosebrugh to views of databases and the view update problem.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis word ’n self-duale kategoriese benadering tot verskeie onderwerpe in nie-abelse algebra ontwikkel, wat gebaseer is op die vervanging van die raamwerk van ’n kategorie met dié van ’n kategorie saam met ’n funktor tot die kategorie. Ons neem ook enkele eerste stappe in die rigting van ’n skakel tussen hierdie teorie and die teorie van databasisse in rekenaarwetenskap. Beide hierdie teorieë is gebaseer op die studie van Grothendieck bifibrasies en hul veralgemenings. Die hoof resultate in hierdie tesis het betrekking tot ooreenkomste tussen sekere strukture op ’n kategorie wat relevant tot die studie van nie-abelse groep-agtige strukture is, en funktore oor daardie kategorie. ’n Verdere ondersoek van hierdie ooreemkomste lei tot ’n sisteem van duale aksiomas op ’n funktor, wat beskou kan word as ’n oplossing tot die voorstel van Mac Lane in sy 1950 artikel “Duality for Groups” dat ’n self-duale konteks gevind word waarin resultate vir groepe geformuleer en bewys kan word. Die deel van hierdie tesis wat met die teorie van databasisse te doen het is gebaseer op ’n onlangse benadering deur Johnson en Rosebrugh tot aansigte van databasisse en die opdatering van hierdie aansigte.