Fusion systems

Aschbacher, Michael; Oliver, Bob

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Fusion systems
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This is a survey article on the theory of fusion systems, a relatively new area of mathematics with connections to local finite group theory, algebraic topology, and modular representation theory. We first describe the general theory and then look separately at these connections.

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