PMH6 Group Theory

General Information

This page relates to the Pure Mathematics Honours course "Group Theory".

The lecturer for this course is Scott Murray.

For general information on honours in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, refer to the relevant honours handbook.

Resources

Course outline

Lecture 1: Review

Lectures 2 and 3: Isomorphism theorems and group actions

Lecture 4: Sylows Theorems and general linear groups

Lecture 5: Important subgroups of GL. Correction: in exercise 2, we need q>2.

Assignment 1. (This is the corrected version. The original is here.)

Lectures 5 and 7: Marking scheme, parabolic subgroups and normal structure of GL

Lecture 8: Soluble and nilpotent groups

Lectures 9-11: Geometric algebra

Lecture 12: Witt Extension Theorem

Lectures 13 and 14: Structure of symplectic groups. Includes correction to definition of permutation matrices.

Solution to Assignment 1, Question 5

Assignment 2

Lectures 15 and 16: Bruhat decomposition and parabolics in symplectic groups

Lecture 17: Normal structure of symplectic groups

Lectures 17 and 18: Matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras

Timetable