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Character Theory and the McKay Conjecture

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics

  • Date Published: April 2018
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108428446

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  • The McKay conjecture is the origin of the counting conjectures in the representation theory of finite groups. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to these conjectures, while assuming minimal background knowledge. Character theory is explored in detail along the way, from the very basics to the state of the art. This includes not only older theorems, but some brand new ones too. New, elegant proofs bring the reader up to date on progress in the field, leading to the final proof that if all finite simple groups satisfy the inductive McKay condition, then the McKay conjecture is true. Open questions are presented throughout the book, and each chapter ends with a list of problems, with varying degrees of difficulty.

    • Written by one of the world leaders in the field
    • Gives a comprehensive overview of the subject, including descriptions of related results at the end of each chapter
    • Brings together for the first time results that were spread throughout the literature
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    Reviews & endorsements

    'Navarro continues his informative preface with an exhaustive overview of the work done on this conjecture, and he includes a number of fascinating insights and elaborations.' Michael Berg, MAA Reviews

    '… the author has done an excellent job in presenting a road leading from the basics to the present frontiers in representation theory.' Burkhard Külshammer, zbMATH

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    Product details

    • Date Published: April 2018
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108428446
    • length: 250 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 156 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.47kg
    • contains: 80 exercises
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Notation
    1. The basics
    2. Action on characters by automorphisms
    3. Galois action on characters
    4. Character values and identities
    5. Characters over a normal subgroup
    6. Extension of characters
    7. Degrees of characters
    8. The Howlett–Isaacs theorem
    9. Global-local counting conjectures
    10. A reduction theorem for the McKay conjecture
    Appendix
    Bibliographic notes
    References
    Index.

  • Author

    Gabriel Navarro, Universitat de València, Spain
    Gabriel Navarro is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Valencia. He has published over 160 papers, and the widely-cited volume Characters and Blocks of Finite Groups (Cambridge, 1998). He is a leading researcher in character theory and the McKay conjecture.

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