On the Random Generation of Finite Simple Classical Groups

DOI10.1081/AGB-200034037zbMath1073.20007OpenAlexW2037750815MaRDI QIDQ3158385

Marilena Stavrides

Publication date: 25 January 2005

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1081/agb-200034037

zbMATH Keywords

maximal subgroupsfinite simple groupsfinite classical groupspairs of generatorsrandom generators of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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