Academic Catalog

MATH511 FINITE GROUPS

Course Code: 2360511
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. GÜLÝN ERCAN
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Abelian groups; torsion, divisible, torsion-free groups, pure subgroups, finitely generated abelian groups. Solvable and nilpotent groups, Hall ?-subgroups. Permutation groups. Representations. Fixed-point free automorphisms. Locally nilpotent groups, locally solvable groups. Finiteness properties. Infinite solvable groups.