Classifying Spaces of Sporadic Groups
Author: David J. Benson
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0821844741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor each of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, the authors construct a 2-completed classifying space using a homotopy decomposition in terms of classifying spaces of suitable 2-local subgroups. This construction leads to an additive decomposition of the mod 2 group cohomology.