U. of Haifa Algebra seminar, November 26, 2020
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Carlo M. Scoppola (Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila)
Topic: Rigid commutators and a chain of normalizers in the symmetric group on $2^n$ symbols
Place: This is an online seminar. Please email Yuval Ginosar “ginosar at math dot haifa dot ac dot il” for the Zoom ID and password.
Date: Thursday, November 26, 2020
Time: 12:00
Abstract:
A chain of normalizers in the symmetric group on $2^n$ symbols is constructed and characterized via the “rigid commutators machinery”, a recently developed combinatorial technique. This purely group-theoretical analysis is motivated by the study of the location of the abelian regular subgroups in $Sym(2^n)$. This study, in turn, has some importance in differential cryptanalysis.
