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Classification of finite simple groups
History of the proof
Gorenstein's program
In 1972 Gorenstein (1979, Appendix) announced a program for completing the classification of finite simple groups, consisting of the following 16 steps:
1.Groups of low 2-rank. This was essentially done by Gorenstein and Harada, who classified the groups with sectional 2-rank at most 4.
Most of the cases of 2-rank at most 2 had been done by the time Gorenstein announced his program.
2.The semisimplicity of 2-layers. The problem is to prove that the 2-layer of the centralizer of an involution in a simple group is semisimple.
3.Standard form in odd characteristic. If a group has an involution with a 2-component that is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic,
the goal is to show that it has a centralizer of involution in "standard form" meaning that a centralizer of involution has a component that is of Lie type in odd characteristic and also has a centralizer of 2-rank 1.
4.Classification of groups of odd type. The problem is to show that if a group has a centralizer of involution in "standard form" then it is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic.
This was solved by Aschbacher's classical involution theorem.
5.Quasi-standard form
6.Central involutions
7.Classification of alternating groups.
8.Some sporad