Ischia Group Theory 2010


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Positive laws on generators in powerful pro-p groups / C. Acciarri and G.A. Fernandez-Alcober -- Periodic groups saturated by dihedral subgroups / B. Amberg and L. Kazarin -- A note on finite groups in which the conjugacy class sizes form an arithmetic progression / M. Bianchi, A. Gillio and P.P. Palfy -- A survey of recent progress on non-abelian tensor squares of groups / R.D. Blyth, F. Fumagalli and M. Morigi -- Conjugacy classes of subgroups of finite p-groups: the first gap / R. Brandl -- The Tutte polynomial of the Schreier graphs of the Grigorchuck group and the Basilica group / T. Ceccherini-Silberstein, A. Donno and D. Iacono -- On maximal subgroups of the alternating and symmetric groups / V. Colombo -- Markov's problems through the looking glass of Zariski and Markov topologies / D. Dikranjan and D. Toller -- Linear groups with finite dimensional orbits / M.R. Dixon, L.A. Kurdachenko and J. Otal -- Three-dimensional loops as sections in a four-dimensional solvable Lie group / A. Figula -- A note on finite p-groups with a maximal elementary subgroup of rank 2 / G. Glauberman -- Finitely generated free by C[symbol] pro-p groups / W. Herfort and P.A. Zalesskii -- Finite nonabelian 2-groups all of whose minimal nonabelian subgroups are isomorphic to M[symbol] / Z. Janko -- Twisted conjugacy in certain Artin groups / A. Juhasz -- Applications of Clifford's theorem to Frobenius groups of automorphisms / E.I. Khukhro -- Inducing [symbol]-partial characters with a given vertex / M.L. Lewis -- Groups and Lie rings with Frobenius groups of automorphisms / N. Yu. Makarenko -- On integral representations of finite groups / D. Malinin -- On p-groups of small powerful class / A. Mann -- Lifting (2, k)-generators of linear groups / A. Maroti and C. Tamburini Bellani -- Fixed point subgroups and character tables / G. Navarro -- Permutability and seriality in locally finite groups / D.J.S. Robinson -- On the exponent of a finite group with a four-group of automorphisms / E. Romano and P. Shumyatsky -- Examples of Markov chains on spaces with multiplicities / F. Scarabotti and F. Tolli -- On the order and the element orders of finite groups: results and problems / W.J. Shi -- On local finiteness of verbal subgroups in residually finite groups / P. Shumyatsky -- The adjoint group of radical rings and related questions / Ya. P. Sysak -- On the Gorenstein dimension of soluble groups / O. Talelli -- Decomposition numbers for projective modules of finite Chevalley groups / A.E. Zalesski




Groups of Prime Power Order. Volume 3


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This is the third volume of a comprehensive and elementary treatment of finite p-group theory. Topics covered in this volume: impact of minimal nonabelian subgroups on the structure of p-groups, classification of groups all of whose nonnormal subgroups have the same order, degrees of irreducible characters of p-groups associated with finite algebras, groups covered by few proper subgroups, p-groups of element breadth 2 and subgroup breadth 1, exact number of subgroups of given order in a metacyclic p-group, soft subgroups, p-groups with a maximal elementary abelian subgroup of order p2, p-groups generated by certain minimal nonabelian subgroups, p-groups in which certain nonabelian subgroups are 2-generator. The book contains many dozens of original exercises (with difficult exercises being solved) and a list of about 900 research problems and themes.




Ischia Group Theory 2010


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The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the Conference entitled "Ischia Group Theory 2010," which took place at NH Ischia Thermal SPA Resort, Ischia, Naples, Italy, from April 14 to April 17, 2010. The articles in this volume are contributions by speakers and participants of the Conference. The volume contains a collection of research articles by leading experts in group theory and some accessible surveys of recent research in the area. Together they provide an overview of the diversity of themes and applications that interest group theorists today. Topics covered in this volume include: finite p-groups, character and representation theory, combinatorial group theory, varieties of groups, profinite and pro-p-groups, linear groups, graphs connected with groups, subgroup structure, finiteness conditions, radical rings, conjugacy classes, automorphisms.




Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization I


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This volume is the first of two volumes representing leading themes of current research in nonlinear analysis and optimization. The articles are written by prominent researchers in these two areas and bring the readers, advanced graduate students and researchers alike, to the frontline of the vigorous research in these important fields of mathematics. This volume contains articles on nonlinear analysis. Topics covered include the convex feasibility problem, fixed point theory, mathematical biology, Mosco stability, nonexpansive mapping theory, nonlinear partial differential equations, optimal control, the proximal point algorithm and semigroup theory. The companion volume (Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 514) is devoted to optimization. This book is co-published with Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel). Table of Contents: A. S. Ackleh, K. Deng, and Q. Huang -- Existence-uniqueness results and difference approximations for an amphibian juvenile-adult model; S. Aizicovici, N. S. Papageorgiou, and V. Staicu -- Three nontrivial solutions for $p$-Laplacian Neumann problems with a concave nonlinearity near the origin; V. Barbu -- Optimal stabilizable feedback controller for Navier-Stokes equations; H. H. Bauschke and X. Wang -- Firmly nonexpansive and Kirszbraun-Valentine extensions: A constructive approach via monotone operator theory; R. E. Bruck -- On the random product of orthogonal projections in Hilbert space II; D. Butnariu, E. Resmerita, and S. Sabach -- A Mosco stability theorem for the generalized proximal mapping; A. Cegielski -- Generalized relaxations of nonexpansive operators and convex feasibility problems; Y. Censor and A. Segal -- Sparse string-averaging and split common fixed points; T. Dominguez Benavides and S. Phothi -- Genericity of the fixed point property for reflexive spaces under renormings; K. Goebel and B. Sims -- Mean Lipschitzian mappings; T. Ibaraki and W. Takahashi -- Generalized nonexpansive mappings and a proximal-type algorithm in Banach spaces; W. Kaczor, T. Kuczumow, and N. Michalska -- The common fixed point set of commuting nonexpansive mapping in Cartesian products of weakly compact convex sets; L. Leu'tean -- Nonexpansive iterations in uniformly convex $W$-hyperbolic spaces; G. Lopez, V. Martin-Marquez, and H.-K. Xu -- Halpern's iteration for nonexpansive mappings; J. W. Neuberger -- Lie generators for local semigroups; H.-K. Xu -- An alternative regularization method for nonexpansive mappings with applications. (CONM/513)




Euro-Par 2010 - Parallel Processing


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Euro-Par Conference held in Ischia, Italy, in August/September 2010. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 256 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on support tools and environments; performance prediction and evaluation; scheduling and load-balancing; high performance architectures and compilers; parallel and distributed data management; grid, cluster and cloud computing; peer to peer computing; distributed systems and algorithms; parallel and distributed programming; parallel numerical algorithms; multicore and manycore programming; theory and algorithms for parallel computation; high performance networks; and mobile and ubiquitous computing.




Recent Advancements in Graph Theory


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Graph Theory is a branch of discrete mathematics. It has many applications to many different areas of Science and Engineering. This book provides the most up-to-date research findings and applications in Graph Theory. This book focuses on the latest research in Graph Theory. It provides recent findings that are occurring in the field, offers insights on an international and transnational levels, identifies the gaps in the results, and includes forthcoming international studies and research, along with its applications in Networking, Computer Science, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences, etc. The book is written with researchers and post graduate students in mind.




Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems IV


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The papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics in the geometric theory of functions of one and several complex variables, including univalent functions, conformal and quasiconformal mappings, and dynamics in infinite-dimensional spaces. In addition, there are several articles dealing with various aspects of Lie groups, control theory, and optimization. Taken together, the articles provide the reader with a panorama of activity in complex analysis and quasiconformal mappings, drawn by a number of leading figures in the field. The companion volume (Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 554) is devoted to general relativity, geometry, and PDE.




Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems V


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This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems, held from May 22-27, 2011, in Akko (Acre), Israel. The papers cover a wide variety of topics in complex analysis and partial differential




Infinite Products of Operators and Their Applications


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This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop on Infinite Products of Operators and Their Applications, held from May 21-24, 2012, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. The papers cover many different topics regarding infinite products of operators and their applications: projection methods for solving feasibility and best approximation problems, arbitrarily slow convergence of sequences of linear operators, monotone operators, proximal point algorithms for finding zeros of maximal monotone operators in the presence of computational errors, the Pascoletti-Serafini problem, remetrization for infinite families of mappings, Poisson's equation for mean ergodic operators, vector-valued metrics in fixed point theory, contractivity of infinite products and mean convergence theorems for generalized nonspreading mappings. This book is co-published with Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel).




Fun with Algorithms


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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference, FUN 2010, held in June 2010 in Ischia, Italy. FUN with algorithms is a three-yearly conference that aims at atractings works which, besides a deep and interesting algorithmic content, also present amusing and fun aspects. The 32 full papers and 3 invited talks are carefully selected from 54 submissions and focus on topics such as distibuted algorithms, graph computations, parallelism, zero-knowledge proof, iphone, pattern matching and strategy games.