a result of dixon‎, ‎evans and smith shows that if $g$ is a locally (soluble-by-finite) group whose proper subgroups are (finite rank)-by-abelian‎, ‎then $g$ itself has this property‎, ‎i.e‎. ‎the commutator subgroup of $g$ has finite rank‎. ‎it is proved here that if $g$ is a locally (soluble-by-finite) group whose proper subgroups have minimax commutator subgroup‎, ‎then also the commutator s...

s of lectures for Banff meeting, Groups and Geometries, May 4-8, 2015 Michael Aschbacher: Quaternion fusion packets Abstract I’ll discuss work on a fusion theoretic version of the so-called Classical Involution Theorem for groups. The project is part of a program to simplify part of the proof of the theorem classifying the finite simple groups.I’ll discuss work on a fusion theoretic version of ...

The topic of the present paper is the following question. Let G be a locally finite group admitting an automorphism φ of finite order such that the centralizer CG(φ) satisfies certain finiteness conditions. What impact does this have on the structure of the group G? Equivalently, one can ask the same question when φ is an element of G. Sometimes the impact is quite strong and the paper is a sur...

The purpose of this paper is to give a brief general account of the completely reducible finite-dimensional representations of a locally finite group G over a given algebraically closed field K. Theorem 1 shows that all such representations of G can be brought down to the algebraic closure F in K of the prime field of K. This reduces all further considerations in this account to countable group...