My research interests lie primarily in Computational Algebra, Representation Theory, and Group Theory.
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Towards an efficient Meat-axe algorithm using f-cyclic matrices:
the density of uncyclic matrices in M(n,q)
(with
C.E. Praeger ), J. Algebra 322 (2009), 766--790.
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MR |
Zbl
Appendix 1 The polynomials unc(n,q) for
n ≤ 37.
Appendix 2 Magma computer programs for verifying
Conjecture 3 for small n.
PhD thesis
Sophie Ambrose, School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Western Australia, 2006.
Worms by number (with C.J. Glasby and F. Pleijel ) Proc. Royal Soc. B 295 (2008), 2071-2076. pdf | ProcRoyalSocBpdf
Writing representations over proper division subrings, J. Algebra 319 (2008), 77-92. ps | pdf | MR | Zbl
The shape of solvable groups with odd order, in: Groups St Andrews 2005, vol. 2, Edited by C.M. Campbell, M.R. Quick, E.F. Robertson and G.C. Smith, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series 340, Cambridge Univ. Press, (2007), 432--437. ps | pdf | MR | Zbl
The Meat-axe and f-cyclic matrices J. Algebra 300 (2006), 77--90. ps | pdf | MR | Zbl
Writing projective representations over proper subfields (with C.R. Leedham-Green and E.A. O'Brien ) J. Algebra 295 (2006), 51--61. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Solvable groups with a given solvable length, and minimal composition length, J. Group Theory 8 (2005), 339--350. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Modules induced from a normal subgroup of prime index, in Rings, Modules, and Abelian Groups, Eds. A. Facchini, E. Houston and L. Salce, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics 236 (2004), 257--270. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
On the tensor product of polynomials over a ring, J. Austral. Math. Soc. 71 (2001), 1--17. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
The number of permutations of n symbols having no cycles of length divisible by q, European J. Combin. 22 (2001), 497--501. ps | pdf | MR
Extended Euclid's algorithm via backward recurrence relations, Math. Mag. 75 (1999), 228--230. ps | pdf| Zbl
Subgroups of the upper-triangular matrix group with maximal derived length and a minimal number of generators, in Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath, I, Edited by C.M. Campbell et al., London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series 260, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1999), 275--281. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Writing a representation over proper subfields (with R.B. Howlett ), Comm. Algebra 25 (1997), 1703--1712. ps | pdf | MR
Irreducible modules and normal subgroups of prime index (with L.G. Kovács ), Comm. Algebra 24 (1996), 1529--1546. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Generators for the group of units of Zn, Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. 22 (1995), 226--228. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
On the faithful representations, of degree 2n, of certain extensions of 2-groups by orthogonal or symplectic groups, J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A 58 (1995), 232--247. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Extraspecial towers and Weil representations (with R.B. Howlett ), J. Algebra 151 (1992), 236--260. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Computing intersections and normalizers in soluble groups (with M.C. Slattery ), J. Symbolic Comput. 9 (1990), 637--651. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
The composition and derived lengths of a finite soluble group, J. Algebra 120 (1989), 406--413. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Constructing normalisers in finite soluble groups, J. Symolic Comput. 5 (1988), 285--294. ps | pdf | MR| Zbl
Intersecting subgroups of finite soluble groups. J. Symbolic Comput. 5 (1988), 295--301. MR| Zbl (Reprint available upon request.)
2-groups with every automorphism central. J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A 41 (1986), 233--236. MR| Zbl (Reprint available upon request.)
Book: Algebra, A First Year Text (with W.G. Gibson and J. Henderson), The Univ. of Sydney, 1993, 202pp. (Revised in 1999, and still in use.)