The probability of generating a classical group

DOI10.1080/00927879408824912MaRDI QIDQ4288275zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Saxl, Robert Guralnick, William M. Kantor

Publication date 11 September 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879408824912

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsDixon's conjecturefinite simple groupsgeneration by two random elementssimple classical groupssymmetric groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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