The Conway-Norton algebras for ^ -(6,3), (7,3), F'_24, and their full automorphism groups

DOI10.1007/BF01388910MaRDI QIDQ1092161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masaaki Kitazume

Publication date 1987

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/143455

zbMATH Keywords

3-transpositionsautomorphism groupConway-Norton algebrasinvolutionssimple group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms, derivations, other operators (nonassociative rings and algebras) (17A36) Solvable, nilpotent (super)algebras (17B30) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29)

Review text

Consider a simple group \(N'/Z(N')\) extended properly below by a center of order 3 and above by index 2 with \(N/N'\) flipping the center \(Z(N')\). If \(N/N'\) contains D, a class of involutions outside of N' which pairwise generate only groups of order at most 6, these are called 3- transpositions. Five such groups have \(N/N'\) isomorphic to \(A_ 6\), \(A_ 7\), \(\Omega^-(6,3)\), \(\Omega(7,3)\), or \(F'_{24}\). Here related Conway-Norton algebras are constructed. S. D. Smith studied the automorphism group of the algebra in the first two cases. The author does it in the last three cases and finds that it is N in the last two cases and has index two over N in the middle case. He follows Tits in obtaining the structure of the centralizer of an involution, and then the finiteness of the automorphism group. Then he uses the characterization.

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