TY - BOOK AU - Waldecker,Rebecca TI - Isolated involutions in finite groups T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, SN - 9781470410612 (online) AV - QA557 .W35 2013 U1 - 512/.23 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Providence, Rhode Island PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Glauberman, G., KW - Involutes (Mathematics) KW - Finite groups KW - Solvable groups KW - Feit-Thompson theorem N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Preliminaries; Chapter 3. Isolated Involutions; Chapter 4. A Minimal Counter-Example to Glauberman's Z*-Theorem; Chapter 5. Balance and Signalizer Functors; Chapter 6. Preparatory Results for the Local Analysis; Chapter 7. Maximal Subgroups Containing $C$; Chapter 8. The $2$-rank of $O_{2',2}(C)$; Chapter 9. Components of ${C}$ and the Soluble Z*-Theorem; Chapter 10. Unbalanced Components; Chapter 11. The $2$-Rank of $G$; Chapter 12. The F*-Structure Theorem; Chapter 13. More Involutions; Chapter 14. The Endgame; Chapter 15. The Final Contradiction and the Z*-Theorem for $\mathcal {K}_2$-Groups; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2013 UR - http://www.ams.org/memo/1061/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-2013-00684-3 ER -