Hurwitz generation of the universal covering of Alt(n)

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.015MaRDI QIDQ3060802zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marco Antonio Pellegrini, M. Chiara Tamburini

Publication date 10 December 2010

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5125

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsHurwitz groupsuniversal coverings\((2,3,7)\)-generations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric groups (20B30) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: We prove that the universal covering of an alternating group Alt(n) which is Hurwitz is still Hurwitz, with 31 exceptions, 30 of which are detectable by the genus formula.

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• On the chirality of the pseudo-Hurwitz maps with alternating and symmetric groups
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