Download or read book Applied Finite Group Actions written by Adalbert Kerber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the top experts in the fields of combinatorics and representation theory, this book distinguishes itself from the existing literature by its applications-oriented point of view. The second edition is extended, placing more emphasis on applications to the constructive theory of finite structures. Recent progress in this field, in particular in design and coding theory, is described.