Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath

Table of Contents

1. Galois groups through invariant relations J. A. Hulpke
2. Construction of Co3. An example of the use of an integrated system for computational group theory J. A. Hulpke and S. A. Linton
3. Embedding some recursively presented groups D. L. Johnson
4. The Dedekind–Frobenius group determinant: new life in an old problem K. W. Johnson
5. Group characters and pi-sharpness K. W. Johnson and E. Poimenidou
6. Permutation group algorithms via black box recognition algorithms W. M. Kantor and A. Seress
7. Nonabelian tensor products of groups: the commutator connection L.-C. Kappe
8. Simple subalgebras of generalized Witt algebras of characteristic zero N. Kawamoto
9. Applications of the Baker–Hausdorff formula in the theory of finite p-groups E. I. Khukhro
10. Generalizations of the restricted Burnside problem for groups with automorphisms E. I. Khukhro
11. The Sigmam-conjecture for a class of metabelian groups D. H. Kochloukova
12. Rings with periodic groups of units II J. Krempa
13. Some free-by-cyclic groups I. J. Leary, G. A. Niblo and D. T. Wise
14. The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Suzuki simple group Sz(8) D. Leemans
15. Semigroup identities and Engel groups P. Longobardi and M. Maj
16. Groups whose elements have given orders V. D. Mazurov and W. J. Shi
17. The Burnside groups and small cancellation theory J. P. McCammond
18. Solvable Engel groups with nilpotent normal closures R. F. Morse
19. Nilpotent injectors in finite groups A. Neumann
20. Some groups with right Engel elements W. Nickel
21. The growth of finite subgroups in p-groups A. Yu. Ol'shanskii
22. Symplectic amalgams and extremal subgroups C. W. Parker and P. Rowley
23. Primitive prime divisor elements in finite classical groups C. E. Praeger
24. On the classification of generalized Hamiltonian groups D. M. Reboli
25. Permutability properties of subgroups D. J. S. Robinson
26. When Schreier transversals grow wild A. Rosemann
27. Probabilistic group theory A. Shalev
28. Combinatorial methods: from groups to polynomial algebras V. Shpilrain
29. Formal languages and the word problem for groups I. A. Stewart and R. M. Thomas
30. Periodic cohomology and free and proper actions on Rn x Sm O. Talelli
31. On modules over group rings of soluble groups of finite rank A. V. Tushev
32. On some series of normal subgroups of the Gupta–Sidki 3-group A. C. Vieira.