Sporadic simple subgroups of finite exceptional groups of Lie type (Q2367181)

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Sporadic simple subgroups of finite exceptional groups of Lie type
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    Sporadic simple subgroups of finite exceptional groups of Lie type (English)
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    17 August 1993
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    The authors solve completely the important question mentioned in the title. Namely, they prove (making use of the classification of finite simple groups) the following Theorem 1. Let \(E\) be a finite simple exceptional group of Lie type, and let \(S\) be a sporadic simple group. Then \(S\) is isomorphic to a subgroup of \(E\) if and only if \(S\) and \(E\) appear in Table I. In particular, (i) groups of type \(^ 2 B_ 2\), \(^ 2 G_ 2\), and \(^ 2 F_ 4\) contain no sporadic subgroups; and (ii) \(M_{23}\), \(M_{24}\), \(J_ 4\), \(Co_ 1\), \(Co_ 2\), \(Co_ 3\), \(McL\), \(Suz\), \(O'N\), \(Ly\), \(HN\), \(He\), \(Fi_{23}\), \(Fi_{24}'\), \(B\), and \(M\) are contained in no exceptional groups. Table I (it is too wide to be given here) contains 10 lines (according to the 10 remaining sporadic groups) and 7 columns (according to the remaining exceptional types \(G_ 2\), \(^ 3 D_ 4\), \(F_ 4\), \(E_ 6\), \(^ 2 E_ 6\), \(E_ 7\), \(E_ 8\)). For instance, the Thompson group is contained only in \(E_ 8(q)\) for \(q=3^ n\) while \(G_ 2(q)\) contains only the Janko groups \(J_ 1\) (for \(q=11^ n\)) and \(J_ 2\) (for \(q=4^ n\)).
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    classification of finite simple groups
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    exceptional group of Lie type
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    sporadic simple groups
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    sporadic subgroups
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