Random generation of finite simple groups

DOI10.1006/jabr.1999.7869zbMath0948.20052OpenAlexW2034508258MaRDI QIDQ1306842

Jan Saxl, Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev, Robert M. Guralnick

Publication date: 20 December 1999

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1999.7869

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsalternating groupsclassical groupsexceptional groupsrandomly chosen elementsrandom generation by conjugates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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