On the size and structure of finite linear groups.

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Authors Boris Weisfeiler

Publication date 3 November 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1960

zbMATH Keywords

Abelian normal subgroupsclassification of finite simple groupsgroups of Lie typeJordan theoremorders of finite subgroups of linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: This is a nearly complete manuscript left behind by Boris Weisfeiler before his disappearance during a hiking trip in Chile in 1985. It is posted on a request from the author's sister, Olga Weisfeiler.

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