On products of involutions in finite groups of Lie type in even characteristic.

DOI10.1016/j.jalgebra.2014.08.037zbMath1316.20011OpenAlexW2080889569WikidataQ115350903 ScholiaQ115350903MaRDI QIDQ468716

Martin W. Liebeck

Publication date: 7 November 2014

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2014.08.037

zbMATH Keywords

finite groups of Lie typerecognition algorithmsfinite classical groupscharacteristic 2products of involutionsproportions of elementscomputational group theorymatrix recognition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory (20-04) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

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