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Centralizers of Involutions in Simple Groups

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The Classification of Finite Simple Groups

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The solution of the needed low 2-rank problems brought simple group theory to a new plateau. We were at last in a position to strike out towards higher ground and study centralizers of involutions in groups of arbitrary 2-rank.

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Gorenstein, D. (1983). Centralizers of Involutions in Simple Groups. In: The Classification of Finite Simple Groups. The University Series in Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3685-3_4

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