The probability of generating a finite simple group.

DOI10.1007/S11856-013-0034-7zbMATH Open1291.20068OpenAlexW2045050182MaRDI QIDQ375519FDOQ375519

Martyn Quick, Colva M. Roney-Dougal, Nina E. Menezes

Publication date: 31 October 2013

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5658

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zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsprofinite groupsrandom elementsalmost simple groupsnumbers of generatorsconditional probabilitiesprobabilistic generations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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Uses Software

• GAP
• Magma
• TomLib

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