On a minimal counterexample to Dade's Projective Conjecture

by

Charles W. Eaton and Geoffrey R. Robinson 

(both at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Birmingham, England)

Abstract:

We show that in a minimal counterexample to Dade's Projective Conjecture,
there is a unique minimal normal subgroup strictly containing the centre, 
i.e., there is a unique conjugacy class of components. 

Status: preprint, submitted.