Date of Thesis
Spring 2012
Description
Burnside posed the question as to whether or not there exist groups having an external automorphism that behaves in a certain, specific way like an inner automorphism: we shall define such automorphisms to be nearly-inner.
NI-groups are fairly rare. With the aid of the computer algebra system Magma - in particular with the aid of its small group database - we set out to test this hypothesis.
Access Type
Honors Thesis
Major
Mathematics
First Advisor
Peter Brooksbank
Recommended Citation
Mizuhara, Matthew, "On a Problem of Burnside" (2012). Honors Theses. 120.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/honors_theses/120