scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15430

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Authors Martin E. Walter

Publication date 25 June 1992

zbMATH Keywords

finite groupsnumber of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Elementary theory of partitions (11P81) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0699.00028.] This paper is partly expository with a sprinkling of new results and ideas. Our goal is to achieve a deeper understanding of finite groups. To this end, we perhaps raise more questions than we answer. One of the broad, even vague, questions which motivated the following discussion is, ``Why is the number of groups of order \(n\) such a seemingly chaotic function of \(n\)? One of our goals, not yet fully achieved, is to ``see in some geometric way ``why there are the number of groups of order \(n\) that there are. We hope that new insights into the structure of finite groups will be a product of this investigation. This paper is a written (and expanded) version of a talk given at the 36th Summer Research Institute of the American Mathematical Society, Durham, New Hamshire, July 3-23, 1988. We include here some results discovered since the Summer Research Institute.

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