this is a survey article on centralizers of finite‎ ‎subgroups in locally finite‎, ‎simple groups or lfs-groups as we‎ ‎will call them‎. ‎we mention some of the open problems about‎ ‎centralizers of subgroups in lfs-groups and applications of the‎ ‎known information about the centralizers of subgroups to the‎ ‎structure of the locally finite group‎. ‎we also prove the‎ ‎following‎: ‎let $g$ be...

we characterize strictly diagonal type of embeddings offinitary symmetric groups in terms of cardinality and the characteristic. namely, we prove thefollowing.let $kappa$ be an infinite cardinal. if$g=underset{i=1}{stackrel{infty}bigcup} g_i,$ where $ g_i=fsym(kappa n_i)$,$(h=underset{i=1}{stackrel{infty}bigcup}h_i, $ where $ h_i=alt(kappa n_i) ), $ is a group of strictly diagonal type and$xi=(...

‎we pursue further our‎ ‎investigation‎, ‎begun in [h.~smith‎, ‎groups with all subgroups subnormal or‎ ‎nilpotent-by-{c}hernikov‎, ‎emph{rend‎. ‎sem‎. ‎mat‎. ‎univ‎. ‎padova}‎ ‎126 (2011)‎, ‎245--253] and continued in [g.~cutolo and h.~smith‎, ‎locally finite groups with all subgroups‎ ‎subnormal or nilpotent-by-{c}hernikov‎. ‎emph{centr‎. ‎eur‎. ‎j‎. ‎math.} (to appear)] ‎‎‎of groups $g$ in w...

We answer in the negative a question of Hartley about representations finite groups, by constructing examples simple groups with arbitrarily large whose endomorphism ring consists just scalars. show as consequence that there are automorphisms locally group SL(∞,Fq) trivial centralizer. The smallest our is A6 q=9.