Simple groups, maximal subgroups, and probabilistic aspects of profinite groups

DOI10.1007/BF02937317zbMath0877.20017MaRDI QIDQ677424

Avinoam Mann, Aner Shalev

Publication date: 4 November 1997

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated residually finite groupsnumbers of generatorsnumbers of maximal subgroupsclassification of finite simple groupspositively finitely generated groupsgeneration probabilities in profinite groupsgroups of polynomial maximal subgroup growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Maximal subgroups (20E28) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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