Generators and relations for the Lyons sporadic simple group (Q1348967)

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Generators and relations for the Lyons sporadic simple group
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    Generators and relations for the Lyons sporadic simple group (English)
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    21 May 2002
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    A new presentation for the sporadic simple Lyons group \(Ly\) is produced by producing presentations for each of the groups of an \(Ly\)-amalgam, say \(\mathcal A\), and applying the characterization of \(Ly\) as the universal completion of \(\mathcal A\). The latter characterization is computer-free, whereas the verifications of the presentations for the groups belonging to \(\mathcal A\) involve computer calculations. Furthermore, words in the standard generators for \(Ly\) are given which deliver a set of elements satisfying the new presentation and can be used to decide whether a group suspected to be the Lyons group is in fact isomorphic to \(Ly\).
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    Lyons sporadic simple group
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    presentations
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    generators
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    amalgams
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