Pairwise generating and covering sporadic simple groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2009.10.011MaRDI QIDQ984990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Petra E. Holmes, Attila Maróti

Publication date 20 July 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2009.10.011

zbMATH Keywords

graphsgenerationsporadic simple groupssubgroup coveringspairwise generating sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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