Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on March 21, 2008
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 2008 97(1):239-271; doi:10.1112/plms/pdm057
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Normal subsystems of fusion systems
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
USA
Received 14 November 2006. Revision received 16 August 2007.
The notion of a fusion system was first defined and explored by Puig in the context of modular representation theory. Later, Broto, Levi, and Oliver significantly extended the theory of fusion systems as a tool in homotopy theory. In this paper we begin a program to establish a local theory of fusion systems similar to the local theory of finite groups. In particular, we define the notion of a normal subsystem of a saturated fusion system, and prove some basic results about normal subsystems and factor systems.
This work was partially supported by NSF-0504852.