Und dann erst kommt der "Ab -ge - sa. ng' da. /3 der nidlt kurz und nicht zu la. ng, From "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Richard Wagner This final volume is concerned with some of the developments of the subject in the 1960's. In attempting to determine the simple groups, the first step was to settle the conjecture of Burnside that groups of odd order are soluble. The proof that this conjecture was correct is much too long and complicated for presentation in this text, but a number of ideas in the early stages of it led to a local theory of finite groups, so me aspects of which are discussed in Chapter X. Much of this discussion is a con tinuation of the theory of the transfer (see Chapter IV), but we also introduce the generalized Fitting subgroup, which played a basic role in characterization theorems, that is, in descriptions of specific groups in terms of group-theoretical properties alone. One of the earliest and most important such characterizations was given for Zassenhaus groups; this is presented in Chapter XI. Characterizations in terms of the centralizer of an involution are of particular importance in view of the theorem of Brauer and Fowler. In Chapter XII, one such theorem is given, in which the Mathieu group 9J'l1l and PSL(3, 3) are characterized.

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X. Local Finite Group Theory.- § 1. Elementary Lemmas.- § 2. Groups of Order Divisible by at Most Two Primes.- § 3. The J-Subgroup.- § 4. Conjugate p-Subgroups.- § 5. Characteristic p-Functors.- § 6. Transfer Theorems.- § 7. Maximal p-Factor Groups.- § 8. Glauberman's K-Subgroups.- § 9. Further Properties of J, ZJ and K.- §10. The Product Theorem for J.- §11. Fixed Point Free Automorphism Groups.- §12. Local Methods and Cohomology.- §13. The Generalized Fitting Subgroup.- §14. The Generalized p?-Core.- §15. Applications of the Generalized Fitting Subgroup.- §16. Signalizer Functors and a Transitivity Theorem.- Notes on Chapter X.- XI. Zassenhaus Groups.- § 1. Elementary Theory of Zassenhaus Groups.- § 2. Sharply Triply Transitive Permutation Groups.- § 3. The Suzuki Groups.- § 4. Exceptional Characters.- § 5. Characters of Zassenhaus Groups.- § 6. Feit's Theorem.- § 7. Non-Regular Normal Subgroups of Multiply Transitive Permutation Groups.- § 8. Real Characters.- § 9. Zassenhaus Groups of Even Degree.- §10. Zassenhaus Groups of Odd Degree and a Characterization of PGL(2, 2f).- §11. The Characterization of the Suzuki Groups.- §12. Order Formulae.- §13. Survey of Ree Groups.- Notes on Chapter XI.- XII. Multiply Transitive Permutation Groups.- § 1. The Mathieu Groups.- § 2. Transitive Extensions of Groups of Suzuki Type.- § 3. Sharply Multiply Transitive Permutation Groups.- § 4. On the Existence of 6- and 7-Fold Transitive Permutation Groups.- § 5. A Characterization of M11 and PSL(3, 3).- § 6. Multiply Homogeneous Groups.- § 7. Doubly Transitive Soluble Permutation Groups.- § 8. A Characterization of SL(2, 5).- § 9. Sharply Doubly Transitive Permutation Groups.- §10. Permutation Groups of Prime Degree.- Notes on Chapter XII.-Index of Names.