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Polycyclic Groups - Brossura

Segal, Daniel

 
9780521023948: Polycyclic Groups

Sinossi

This book will be of interest to mathematicians doing research in algebra, and to postgraduate students studying that subject.

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Descrizione del libro

The theory of polycyclic groups is a branch of infinite group theory which has a rather different flavour from the rest of that subject. This book is a comprehensive account of the present state of this theory.

Contenuti

Preface; Notation; 1. The elements, 2. Mal'cev's theorems; 3. Extensions; 4. Arithmetical methods; 5. Faithful representations; 6. On unipotent groups; 7. Semi-simple splitting; 8. Soluble Z-linear groups; 9. A finiteness theorem; 10. Polycyclic groups with isomorphic finite quotients; 11. Examples; Appendix; References; Index.

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