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Professor J S Wilson

Professor J S Wilson

Professor J S Wilson

M.A., Sc.D. (Cantab.), L.R.A.M.

  • Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
  • Distinguished Research Lecturer, University College, Oxford

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eMail: John [dot] Wilson [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 273536

Office: SGF9

Preferred Address:

University College
Oxford
Ox1 4BH
England

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests: 
profinite groups, finite and infinite soluble groups, model theory of groups, branch groups, word growth of groups, finitely presented groups, generation problems for finite simple groups.
Major/Recent Publications: 
  • Profinite groups. London Math. Soc. Monographs, New Series 19 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
  • (with C.$ \, $J.$ \, $B. Brookes and J.$ \, $E.Roseblade) Exterior powers of modules for polycyclic groups. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 56 (1997), 231–244.
  • Finitely presented soluble groups. In Geometric and Homological Topics in Group Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 296–316.
  • (with A. Lucchini and M.$ \, $C. Tamburini) Hurwitz groups of large rank. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 61 (2000), 81–92.
  • On abstract and profinite just infinite groups. Chapter 5 in New horizons in pro-$ p $ groups (Birk­haüser, 2000).
  • (with R.$ \, $M. Guralnick) On the probability of generating a finite soluble group. Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 81 (2000), 405–427.
  • (with R.$ \, $I. Grigorchuk) A structural property concerning abstract commensurability of subgroups. J. London Math. Soc. (2) 68 (2003), 671–682.
  • (with R.$ \, $I. Grigorchuk) The uniqueness of the actions of certain branch groups on rooted trees. Geom. Dedicata 100 (2003), 103–116.
  • On exponential growth and uniformly exponential growth for groups. Invent. Math. 155 (2004), 287–303.
  • On growth of groups with few relators. Bull. London Math. Soc. 36 (2004), 1–2.
  • Structure theory for branch groups. In Geometric and Homological Topics in Group Theory (Cambridge University Press), to appear.
  • First-order characterization of the radical of a finite group. J. Symbolic Logic, to appear.
  • Linear groups with many $ 2 $-generator soluble subgroups. Bull. London Math. Soc., to appear.
  • Characterization of the soluble radical by a sequence of words. J. Algebra, to appear.
Popular article The glass bead game. Math. Intelligencer 19 (1997), no. 2, 23–25.
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