Frobenius’ Result on Simple Groups of Order <tex-math> \frac{p^3 - p}{2} </tex-math>

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.120.08.725MaRDI QIDQ5404029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Monsky

Publication date 20 March 2014

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4130

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsgroups of order \((p^3-p)/2\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) History of group theory (20-03) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: The complete list of pairs of non-isomorphic finite simple groups having the same order is well-known. In particular for p>3, PSL_2(Z/p) is the "only" simple group of order (p^3-p)/2. It's less well-known that Frobenius proved this uniqueness result in 1902. This note presents a version of Frobenius' argument that might be used in an undergraduate honors algebra course. It also includes a short modern proof, aimed at the same audience, of the much earlier result that PSL_2(Z/p) is simple for p>3; a result stated by Galois in 1832.

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