A Monster Graph I

DOI10.1112/S0024611504014868MaRDI QIDQ4657735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter J. Rowley

Publication date 14 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/s0024611504014868

zbMATH Keywords

2-local geometriesgraphsLeech latticelengths of orbitsMonstersporadic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Automorphism groups of lattices (11H56) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Other finite incidence structures (geometric aspects) (51E30)

Review text

One of the many interesting facets of the Monster sporadic simple group is its 2-local geometry. To study this geometry in detail is somewhat daunting, as it has more than \(5\times 10^{27}\) points, and even more lines, planes, and so on. The aim of the present paper is to begin such a study by investigating the structure of its point-line collinearity graph, as far as points at distance 2 from a fixed point. This is already a challenge, even though it covers only about \(2\times 10^{14}\) points, a miniscule proportion of the total. The graph has point set indexed by the elements of class \(2B\) in the Monster: its automorphism group is the Monster and the point stabilizer is of shape \(2^{1+24}Co_1\). Theorem 1 gives the lengths of the orbits of the point stabilizer on the points at distance at most 2. This is well-known and has been re-discovered many times. The interesting contribution of this paper, however, is the lengths of the orbits on edges between these points. This is much more difficult to calculate, and is the content of Theorems 2-6. The details of the calculations inside the Leech lattice are suppressed, and may be found in the author's paper entitled `Cross orbits' [LMS J. Comput. Math. 7, 219-265, electronic only (2004; Zbl 1062.20015)].

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(6)

• A 11,707,448,673,375 vertex graph related to the Baby Monster. I, II.
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• Point-line collinearity graphs of two sporadic minimal parabolic geometries.

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