On conjugacy classes of maximal subgroups of finite simple groups, and a related zeta function.

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-04-12834-9zbMath1103.20010MaRDI QIDQ2387120

Benjamin M. S. Martin, Aner Shalev, Martin W. Liebeck

Publication date: 1 September 2005

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1118341232

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groups; numbers of conjugacy classes; finite simple groups; finite groups of Lie type; zeta functions; exceptional groups; maximal subgroups of bounded order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E45: Conjugacy classes for groups

20E28: Maximal subgroups

11M41: Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions

20D06: Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type

20B35: Subgroups of symmetric groups

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