Simple groups, permutation groups, and probability

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-99-00288-XzbMath0916.20003WikidataQ105335488 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)

zbMATH Keywords

maximal subgroups; primitive permutation groups; classical groups; genus; simple groups; probabilistic group theory; almost simple groups; base size; generation of simple groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20G40: Linear algebraic groups over finite fields

20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups

14H30: Coverings of curves, fundamental group

20D06: Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type

20B15: Primitive groups

20P05: Probabilistic methods in group theory

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Fixed point ratios in actions of finite classical groups. I., Fixed point ratios in actions of finite classical groups. II., Random generation of finite simple groups, Fixed point spaces in primitive actions of simple algebraic groups., Incidence matrices, permutation characters, and the minimal genus of a permutation group, Fuchsian groups, finite simple groups and representation varieties., Probabilistic generation of finite simple groups, Bases of primitive linear groups., Fixed point ratios in actions of finite classical groups. III., Two point stabilisers of partition actions of linear groups, Random matrix theory over finite fields, Bounds on finite quasiprimitive permutation groups

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