Publication:500212

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2015-0019zbMATH Open1330.20024arXiv1409.8086OpenAlexW1830135204MaRDI QIDQ500212FDOQ500212

Andrey Vasil'ev, Mariya A. Grechkoseeva

Publication date: 1 October 2015

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Finite groups are said to be isospectral if they have the same sets of element orders. A finite nonabelian simple group $L$ is said to be almost recognizable by spectrum if every finite group isospectral to $L$ is an almost simple group with socle isomorphic to $L$. It is known that all finite simple sporadic, alternating and exceptional groups of Lie type, except $J_2$, $A_6$, $A_{10}$ and ${}^3{D}_4(2)$, are almost recognizable by spectrum. The present paper is the final step in the proof of the following conjecture due to V.D. Mazurov: there exists a positive integer $d_0$ such that every finite simple classical group of dimension larger than $d_0$ is almost recognizable by spectrum. Namely, we prove that a nonabelian composition factor of a~finite group isospectral to a finite simple symplectic or orthogonal group $L$ of dimension at least 10, is either isomorphic to $L$ or not a group of Lie type in the same characteristic as $L$, and combining this result with earlier work, we deduce that Mazurov's conjecture holds with $d_0=60$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8086

zbMATH Keywords

prime graphsfinite simple groupsisospectral groupsrecognizable groupssets of element ordersspectra of groupsclassical groupsfinite groups of Lie typeGruenberg-Kegel graphsalmost recognizability by spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, (pi)-groups, (pi)-structure (20D20) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

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