Covering the alternating groups by products of cycle classes.

DOI10.1016/j.jcta.2008.01.010zbMath1172.20002OpenAlexW1988998671MaRDI QIDQ958728

Marcel Herzog, Gil Kaplan, Arieh Lev

Publication date: 8 December 2008

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2008.01.010

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classessymmetric groupsalternating groupsproducts of cyclescovering numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35)

Related Items

Alternating groups as products of cycle classes ⋮ Critical numbers of natural intervals ⋮ On zero-sum partitions and anti-magic trees

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