Constructing Maximal Subgroups of Classical Groups

DOI10.1112/S1461157000000899zbMath1079.20021OpenAlexW2028827359MaRDI QIDQ5697468

Derek F. Holt, Colva M. Roney-Dougal

Publication date: 17 October 2005

Published in: LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/8/lms2004-008/

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic groupsmaximal subgroupsunitary groupspolynomial time algorithmsfinite classical groupslinear groupsAschbacher classesabsolutely irreducible groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Maximal subgroups (20E28) 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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Uses Software

• Magma
• ATLAS Group Representations

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