Groups St Andres 2001 in Oxford Volume 1 [Paperback]

This first volume contains selected papers from the conference 'Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford'.This first volume of the two-volume book contains selected papers from the conference 'Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford'. The articles are contributed by a number of leading researchers and cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. There are articles based on lecture courses given by five main speakers together with refereed survey and research articles. The 'Groups St Andrews' proceedings volumes are a snapshot of the state of the art in group theory and they often play an important role in future developments in the subject.This first volume of the two-volume book contains selected papers from the conference 'Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford'. The articles are contributed by a number of leading researchers and cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. There are articles based on lecture courses given by five main speakers together with refereed survey and research articles. The 'Groups St Andrews' proceedings volumes are a snapshot of the state of the art in group theory and they often play an important role in future developments in the subject.This two-volume set contains selected papers from the conference Groups St. Andrews 2001 in Oxford. Contributed by leading researchers, the articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. Contributions based on lecture courses given by five main speakers are included with refereed survey and research articles.Introduction; 1. Permutability and subnormality in finite groups M. J. Alejandre, A. Ballester-Bolinches, R. Esteban-Romero and M. C. Pedraza-Aguilera; 2. (Pro)-finite and (topologically) locally finite groups with a CC-subgroup Z. Arad and W. Herfort; 3. Table algebras generated by elements of small degrees Z. Arad and M. Muzychuk; 4. Subgroups which are a union of a given number of conjugacy classes A. R. Ashraf and H. Sahraei; 5. Some results on finite factorized groups A. Ballester-Bolinches, J. Cossey,ls„