A representation for the Lyons group in GL₂₄₈₀(4), and a new uniqueness proof

DOI10.1007/S000130050158MaRDI QIDQ1383569zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert A. Wilson

Publication date 9 July 1998

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000130050158

zbMATH Keywords

faithful representationsmodular representationspresentationssporadic groupssporadic simple Lyons groupuniqueness proof

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

The author constructs the smallest faithful representation for Lyons' simple group \(Ly\) in characteristic 2, a representation of dimension \(2480\) over \(\text{GF}(4)\). This is done by using the well-known amalgamation method with the subgroups \(G_2(5)\) and \(5^3.L_3(5)\) and their intersection \(5^{2+1+2} : GL_2(5)\). During these calculations, the author also constructs the smallest representation of \(G_2(5)\) in characteristic 2 of dimension \(124\). The proof that the matrices do in fact represent \(Ly\) is done by checking the original presentation of C. Sims, where the details are omitted, since the same proof, with another representation of \(Ly\), has been done before by \textit{C. Jansen, R. A. Wilson} [Commun. Algebra 24, No. 3, 873-879 (1996; Zbl 0845.20010)]. Moreover, the paper contains a uniqueness proof for \(Ly\) that follows more or less directly from the construction, and the fact that the constructed representation stays irreducible when restricted to \(G_2(5)\).

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