Extending morphisms of groups and graphs

DOI10.2307/2946591MaRDI QIDQ1185527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoav Segev, Michael Aschbacher

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2946591

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-local geometriesgraphsporadic simple groupsuniqueness proofsuniqueness systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Combinatorial geometries and geometric closure systems (51D20) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

Both of the authors of this article have been very successful in giving some kind of unified uniqueness proofs for sporadic simple groups like \(J_ 4\), \(LyS\), \(F_ 1\), \(Co_ 1\), \(F_ 2\), \(F_ 5\). All these proofs use what the authors call uniqueness systems. These then provide us with a graph on which the group in question acts. One then has to show that this graph is simply connected, which is equivalent to show that the graph is triangulable. The paper under review develops a general theory of uniqueness systems and provides us with some properties which imply that the graph mentioned before is triangulable. Furthermore they indicate how \(p\)-local geometries might be used to construct uniqueness systems. Finally they sketch the uniqueness proof of the Monster simple group due to \textit{R. Griess}, \textit{U. Meierfrankenfeld} and the second author [ibid. 130, 567-602 (1989; Zbl 0691.20014)].

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