Sporadic simple subgroups of finite exceptional groups of Lie type

DOI10.1006/JABR.1993.1103MaRDI QIDQ2367181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter B. Kleidman, Robert A. Wilson

Publication date 17 August 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1993.1103

zbMATH Keywords

classification of finite simple groupsexceptional group of Lie typesporadic simple groupssporadic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

The authors solve completely the important question mentioned in the title. Namely, they prove (making use of the classification of finite simple groups) the following Theorem 1. Let \(E\) be a finite simple exceptional group of Lie type, and let \(S\) be a sporadic simple group. Then \(S\) is isomorphic to a subgroup of \(E\) if and only if \(S\) and \(E\) appear in Table I. In particular, (i) groups of type \(^ 2 B_ 2\), \(^ 2 G_ 2\), and \(^ 2 F_ 4\) contain no sporadic subgroups; and (ii) \(M_{23}\), \(M_{24}\), \(J_ 4\), \(Co_ 1\), \(Co_ 2\), \(Co_ 3\), \(McL\), \(Suz\), \(O'N\), \(Ly\), \(HN\), \(He\), \(Fi_{23}\), \(Fi_{24}'\), \(B\), and \(M\) are contained in no exceptional groups. Table I (it is too wide to be given here) contains 10 lines (according to the 10 remaining sporadic groups) and 7 columns (according to the remaining exceptional types \(G_ 2\), \(^ 3 D_ 4\), \(F_ 4\), \(E_ 6\), \(^ 2 E_ 6\), \(E_ 7\), \(E_ 8\)). For instance, the Thompson group is contained only in \(E_ 8(q)\) for \(q=3^ n\) while \(G_ 2(q)\) contains only the Janko groups \(J_ 1\) (for \(q=11^ n\)) and \(J_ 2\) (for \(q=4^ n\)).

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