Simple groups, permutation groups, and probability

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-99-00288-XzbMath0916.20003OpenAlexW2164314258WikidataQ105335488 ScholiaQ105335488MaRDI QIDQ4235502

Aner Shalev, Martin W. Liebeck

Publication date: 22 March 1999

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0894-0347-99-00288-x

zbMATH Keywords

maximal subgroupsprimitive permutation groupsclassical groupsgenussimple groupsprobabilistic group theoryalmost simple groupsbase sizegeneration of simple groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Primitive groups (20B15) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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