Generators for Finite Simple Groups, with Applications to Linear Groups

DOI10.1093/qmathj/43.4.441zbMath0780.20020OpenAlexW2335700196MaRDI QIDQ4025285

Gary M. Seitz, Martin W. Liebeck, Jonathan I. Hall

Publication date: 18 February 1993

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qmathj/43.4.441

zbMATH Keywords

permutationsconjugacy classesmaximal subgroupsalternating groupsgroups of Lie typeregular orbitslinear transformationslinear groupsfinite simple groupdimensions of fixed spacesfixed-point- free automorphism 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)

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