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Classifying Spaces of Sporadic Groups

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Year
2008
ISBN
978-0821844748
ISSN
0076-5376
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3598774 bytes)
Series
Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 147
Pages
307\307
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Time added
2014-05-28 06:27:54

Description

For each of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, the authors construct a 2-completed classifying space using a homotopy decomposition in terms of classifying spaces of suitable 2-local subgroups. This construction leads to an additive decomposition of the mod 2 group cohomology. The authors also summarize the current status of knowledge in the literature about the ring structure of the mod 2 cohomology of sporadic simple groups. This book begins with a fairly extensive initial exposition, intended for non-experts, of background material on the relevant constructions from algebraic topology, and on local geometries from group theory. The subsequent chapters then use those structures to develop the main results on individual sporadic groups.

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