Control of fusion and solubility in fusion systems (Q974386)

In the evolving theory of fusion systems there is still debate on which way of defining certain analogues of group theoretic concepts is the ``right'' one. The paper under review tries to give a clearer and more elementary exposition of some fundamental notions and results in the theory. Control of fusion, quotients, and \(p\)-soluble fusion systems are considered. For control of fusion, the three main theorems in the literature are proved in a significantly shorter way. To prove one of these, and a theorem of Aschbacher that the product of strongly closed subgroups is strongly closed, a new treatment of quotients is provided; also analogues of the isomorphism theorems for fusion systems are included. The author then moves on to \(p\)-soluble fusion systems, and proves that they are constrained, allowing him to effectively characterize fusion systems of \(p\)-soluble groups. This leads to a recast of Thompson Factorization for \(Qd(p)\)-free fusion systems, and consideration of it for more general fusion systems.