ISCHIA GROUP THEORY 2008

ISCHIA GROUP THEORY 2008
Proceedings of the Conference

Naples, Italy, 1 - 4 April 2008

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
On abnormal maximal subgroups of finite groups A. BALLESTER-BOLINCHES, JOHN COSSEY and R. ESTEBAN-ROMERO	1
Finite Gelfand pairs: examples and applications TULLIO CECCHERINI-SILBERSTEIN, DANIELE D'ANGELI, ALFREDO DONNO, FABIO SCARABOTTI and FILIPPO TOLLI	7
On Blichfeldt's like congruences and other close characters - conjugacy classes analogs DAVID CHILLAG	42
Permutation groups defined by unordered relations FRANCESCA DALLA VOLTA and JOHANNES SIEMONS	56
Transitivity of properties of 2-generator subgroups COSTANTINO DELIZIA, PRIMOŽ MORAVEC and CHIARA NICOTERA	68
Some simple locally (soluble-by-finite) groups MARTYN R. DIXON, MARTIN J. EVANS and HOWARD SMITH	79
The fundamental group of a connected undirected profinite graph W. HERFORT	90
On a graph associated with a group DIANA IMPERATORE	100
Some exceptional minimal situations by finite p-groups Z. JANKO	116
Regular limits of infinite symmetric groups OTTO H. KEGEL	120
Large normal and characteristic subgroups satisfying outer commutator identities and their applications E. I. KHUKHRO	131
Soluble linear groups with some restrictions on subgroups of infinite central dimension L.A. KURDACHENKO, J.M. MUÑOZ-ESCOLANO and J. OTAL	156
Character tables of groups where all nonlinear irreducible characters vanish off the center MARK L. LEWIS	174
Some results and questions related to the generating graph of a finite group ANDREA LUCCHINI and ATTILA MARÓTI	183
On the minimal irreducibility of the unipotent characters of the finite unitary groups MARCO ANTONIO PELLEGRINI	209
A note on relative isoclinism classes of compact groups R. REZAEI and F. RUSSO	233
Restrictions of Brauer characters and π-partial characters JOSU SANGRONIZ	236
Real characters and degrees: an overview LUCIA SANUS	243
Varieties of groups and the restricted Burnside problem PAVEL SHUMYATSKY and JHONE CALDEIRA SILVA	248
The (2, 3)-generation of matrix groups over the integers M. C. TAMBURINI	258
p-Projective groups and pro-p trees THOMAS WEIGEL	265
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