The probability of generating a finite simple group.

DOI10.1007/S11856-013-0034-7MaRDI QIDQ375519zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nina E. Menezes, Martyn Quick, Colva M. Roney-Dougal

Publication date 31 October 2013

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

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5658

zbMATH Keywords

finite simple groupsprofinite groupsrandom elementsalmost simple groupsnumbers of generatorsconditional probabilitiesprobabilistic generations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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