A Class of Efficient Presentations of Finite Simple Groups

DOI10.22108/IJGT.2021.128791.1696MaRDI QIDQ6353502arXivFDO

Authors Orlin Stoytchev

Publication date 11 November 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.22108/IJGT.2021.128791.1696

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: We exhibit a new presentation of the (equilateral) Von Dyck groups $D(2,3,n),nge3$, in terms of two generators of order $n$ satisfying three relations, one of which is Artin's braid relation. By dropping the relation which fixes the order of the generators we obtain the universal covering groups of the corresponding Von Dyck groups. In the cases $n=3,,4,,5$, these are respectively the double covers of the finite rotational tetrahedral, octahedral and icosahedral groups. When $nge6$ we obtain infinite covers of the corresponding infinite Von Dyck groups. The interesting cases arise for $nge7$ when these groups act as discrete groups of isometries of the hyperbolic plane. Imposing a suitable third relation we obtain a host of (efficient) presentations of finite simple Chevalley groups of type $A_1$ as well as the sporadic Janko group $J_2$.

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