3-Transposition Groups (Paperback)

Part I. Fischer's Theorem: 1. Preliminaries; 2. Commuting graphs of groups; 3. The structure of 3-transposition groups; 4. Classical groups generated by 3-transpositions; 5. Fischer's theorem; 6. The geometry of 3-transposition groups; Part II. Existence and Uniquenesss Of The Fischer Groups: 7. Some group extensions; 8. Almost 3-transposition groups; 9. Uniqueness systems and coverings of graphs; 10. U4 (3) as a subgroup of U6 (2); 11. The existence and uniqueness of the Fischer groups; Part III. The Local Structure Of The Fischer Groups: 12. The 2-local structure of the Fischer groups; 13. Elements of order 3 in orthogonal groups over GF(3); 14. Odd locals in Fischer groups; 15. Normalisers of subgroups of prime order in Fischer groups.