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1998 New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium
July 6-9, 1998
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand

Organizers
Peter Donelan, Chris Atkin, John Harper, Philip Rhodes-Robinson, Jim Neyland, Geoff Whittle, Steve White, Vladimir Pestov, Tom Crosby

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Structural investigation of matrix groups
by
Eamonn A. O'Brien
University of Auckland

Given a generating set for a subgroup of GL(d, q), what sort of structural questions can we hope to answer about the subgroup? Most problems are insoluble or difficult. I consider some of these difficulties and outline a new computational approach to studying such groups.

Date received: June 1, 1998

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