Construction of a 45,694-dimensional simple module of Lyons' sporadic group over GF(2)

DOI10.1016/S0024-3795(96)00002-XMaRDI QIDQ1355237zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Holger W. Gollan, Gerhard O. Michler

Publication date 19 June 1997

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0024-3795(96)00002-X

zbMATH Keywords

intersection matricesLyons grouppermutation representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of sporadic groups (20C34)

Review text

The authors explicitly calculate the 45694-dimensional representation of the Lyons group over \(\text{GF}(2)\), by chopping it out of the permutation representation on 9606125 points. They use the standard method of intersection matrices, combined with a version of \textit{J. Thackray}'s ``rip-off [Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge (1981)] to produce a basis for the space. Their claim to be able to do the same over \(\mathbb{Q}\) should perhaps be taken with a pinch of salt -- while the algorithm is clear, so they can \textit{in principle} calculate the representation, experience suggests that the problems of `coefficient explosion' will render it impossible in practice.

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