Cotents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Part I - Character Theory for the Odd Order Theorem

Introduction

pp 1-2

Notation

pp 3-4

1 - Preliminary Results from Character Theory

pp 5-9

2 - The Dade Isometry

pp 10-14

3 - TI-Subsets with Cyclic Normalizers

pp 15-20

4 - The Dade Isometry for a Certain Type of Subgroup

pp 21-24

5 - Coherence

pp 25-29

6 - Some Coherence Theorems

pp 30-37

7 - Non-existence of a Certain Type of Group of Odd Order

pp 38-43

8 - Structure of a Minimal Simple Group of Odd Order

pp 44-49

9 - On the Maximal Subgroups of G of Types II, III and IV

pp 50-57

10 - Maximal Subgroups of Types III, IV and V

pp 58-63

11 - Maximal Subgroups of Types III and IV

pp 64-68

12 - Maximal Subgroups of Type I

pp 69-74

13 - The Subgroups S and T

pp 75-86

14 - Non-existence of G

pp 87-92

Notes

pp 93-94

References

pp 95-96

Part II - A Theorem of Suzuki

Introduction

pp 97-98

Notation

pp 99-99

Chapter I - General Properties of G

pp 100-107

Chapter II - The First Case

pp 108-114

Chapter III - The Structure of H

pp 115-121

Chapter IV - Characterization of PSU(3, q)

pp 122-134

Appendix I - A Special Case of a Theorem of Huppert

pp 135-136