On the covering number of small symmetric groups and some sporadic simple groups.

DOI10.1515/gcc-2016-0010zbMath1352.20021arXiv1409.2292MaRDI QIDQ338837

Eric Swartz, Luise-Charlotte Kappe, Daniela Nikolova-Popova

Publication date: 7 November 2016

Published in: Groups, Complexity, Cryptology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2292

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groups; sporadic simple groups; numbers of subgroups; unions of subgroups; covering numbers; covers of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20D08: Simple groups: sporadic groups

20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups

20D30: Series and lattices of subgroups

20B35: Subgroups of symmetric groups

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