Algebraic Groups and Their Representations: 517 (NATO Science Series C) - Softcover

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This volume contains 19 articles written by speakers at the Advanced Study Institute on 'Modular representations and subgroup structure of al­ gebraic groups and related finite groups' held at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge from 23rd June to 4th July 1997. We acknowledge with gratitude the financial support given by the NATO Science Committee to enable this ASI to take place. Generous financial support was also provided by the European Union. We are also pleased to acknowledge funds given by EPSRC to the Newton Institute which were used to support the meeting. It is a pleasure to thank the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute, Professor Keith Moffatt, and the staff of the Institute for their dedicated work which did so much to further the success of the meeting. The editors wish to thank Dr. Ross Lawther and Dr. Nick Inglis most warmly for their help in the production of this volume. Dr. Lawther in particular made an invaluable contribution in preparing the volume for submission to the publishers. Finally we wish to thank the distinguished speakers at the ASI who agreed to write articles for this volume based on their lectures at the meet­ ing. We hope that the volume will stimulate further significant advances in the theory of algebraic groups.

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This volume contains articles by 20 leading workers in the field of algebraic groups and related finite groups.

Articles on representation theory are written by Andersen on tilting modules, Carter on canonical bases, Cline, Parshall and Scott on endomorphism algebras, James and Kleshchev on the symmetric group, Littelmann on the path model, Lusztig on homology bases, McNinch on semisimplicity in prime characteristic, Robinson on block theory, Scott on Lusztig's character formula, and Tanisaki on highest weight modules.
Articles on subgroup structure are written by Seitz and Brundan on double cosets, Liebeck on exceptional groups, Saxl on subgroups containing special elements, and Guralnick on applications of subgroup structure.
Steinberg gives a new, short proof of the isomorphism and isogeny theorems for reductive groups.
Aschbacher discusses the classification of quasithin groups and Borovik the classification of groups of finite Morley rank.

Audience: The book contains accounts of many recent advances and will interest research workers and students in the theory of algebraic groups and related areas of mathematics.