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The generalized Fitting subsystem of a fusion system

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Michael Aschbacher, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2011; Volume 209, Number 986
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5303-0 (print); 978-1-4704-0600-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-2010-00621-5
Published electronically: July 21, 2010
MSC: Primary 20D20, 55R35

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • 1. Background
  • 2. Direct products
  • 3. $\mathcal {E}_{1}\wedge \mathcal {E}_{2}$
  • 4. The product of strongly closed subgroups
  • 5. Pairs of commuting strongly closed subgroups
  • 6. Centralizers
  • 7. Characteristic and subnormal subsystems
  • 8. $T\mathcal {F}_{0}$
  • 9. Components
  • 10. Balance
  • 11. The fundamental group of $\mathcal {F}^{c}$
  • 12. Factorizing morphisms
  • 13. Composition series
  • 14. Constrained systems
  • 15. Solvable fusion systems
  • 16. Fusion systems in simple groups
  • 17. An example

Abstract

The notion of a fusion system was first defined and explored by Puig, in the context of modular representation theory. Later, Broto, Levi, and Oliver extended the theory and used it as a tool in homotopy theory. We seek to build a local theory of fusion systems, analogous to the local theory of finite groups, involving normal subsystems and factor systems. Among other results, we define the notion of a simple system, the generalized Fitting subsystem of a fusion system, and prove the L-balance theorem of Gorenstein and Walter for fusion systems. We define a notion of composition series and composition factors, and prove a Jordon-Hölder theorem for fusion systems.

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