Generating Symmetric Groups

DOI10.2307/2974644MaRDI QIDQ4870036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. M. Isaacs, Thilo E. Zieschang

Publication date 29 September 1996

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2974644

zbMATH Keywords

2-generator groupsgenerating systemsprimitivitysymmetric groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric groups (20B30) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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