Group Theory: Proceedings of a Conference held at Brixen/Bressanone, Italy, May 25-31, 1986

Contents: M. Barlotti: Faithful simple modules for the non-abelian group of order pq.- A. Caranti, S. Franciosi, F. de Giovanni: Some examples of infinite groups in which each element commutes with its endomorphic images.- A. Giambruno: Polynomial identities with involution and the hyperoctahedral group.- F. Gross: Automorphisms of induced extensions.- C.K. Gupta, N.D.Gupta, F. Levin: On dimension subgroups relative to certain product ideals.- B. Hartley: Centralizers in locally finite groups.- T. Hawkes: Subgroup embedding properties.- H. Heineken: Soluble irreducible groups of automorphisms of certain groups of class two.- H. Laue: On automorphism groups which normalize an abelian normal subgroup.- F. Leinen, R.E. Phillips: Algebraically closed groups in locally finite group classes.- J.C. Lennox: Soluble groups with nilpotent-extensible subgroups.- P. Longobardi, M.Maj: On the nilpotence of groups with a certain lattice of normal subgroups.- W. Möhres: Torsion-free nilpotent groups with bounded ranks of the abelian subgroups.- G. Pirillo: On permutation properties for semigroups.- D.J.S. Robinson: Vanishing theorems for cohomology of locally nilpotent groups.- R. Schmidt: Untergruppenverbände endlicher auflösbarer Gruppen.- C.M. Scoppola: An example of a nonabelian Frobenius-Wielandt complement.- S.E. Stonehewer: Subnormal subgroups of factorised groups.- J.S. Wilson: An embedding condition for subgroups of infinite groups. At the International Group Theory Conference in Bressanone recent trends and results in different areas of group theory were presented and discussed. These proceedings contain some survey articles and a number of research papers touching on a wide range of topics including permutation groups, automorphisms, presentations, products of subgroups, locally finite groups, soluble groups and related problems, with some emphasis on infinite groups.