Generators for Alternating and Symmetric Groups

DOI10.1112/jlms/s2-22.1.75zbMath0427.20023OpenAlexW2021783278MaRDI QIDQ3864059

Marston D. E. Conder

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms/s2-22.1.75

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupsymmetric groupcompact Riemann surfacetriangle groupalternating groupcoset diagramsHurwitz group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29) Symmetric groups (20B30)

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