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Amitsur Algebra: George Glauberman (Chicago) | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Amitsur Algebra: George Glauberman (Chicago)

Date: 
Thu, 08/12/201612:00-13:15
Location: 
Manchester Building, Room 209
Title: Fixed points of finite groups on modules
Abstract: Suppose G is a finite group, p is a prime, S is a Sylow p-subgroup of G, and V is a G-module over a field of characteristic p. In some situations, an easy calculation shows that the fixed points of G on V are the same as the fixed points of the normalizer
of S in G. Generalizations of this result have been obtained previously to study the structure of G for p odd. We plan to describe a new generalization for p = 2. (This is part of joint work with J. Lynd that removes the classification of finite simple groups
from the proof of the Martino-Priddy conjecture in topology.)