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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788874403321

Autore

Liebeck M. W (Martin W.), <1954->

Titolo

The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups / / M.W. Liebeck, C. E. Praeger, and J. Saxl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

1-4704-0855-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 86, Number 432

Disciplina

510 s

Soggetti

Finite simple groups

Maximal subgroups

Factorization (Mathematics)

Automorphisms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""Chapter 2: Preliminaries""; ""Chapter 3: Classical groups of large dimension: factorizations as a product of two geometric subgroups""; ""Chapter 4: Classical groups of large dimension: factorizations in which one of the factors is non-geometric""; ""Chapter 5: Classical groups of small dimension""; ""Chapter 6: Factorizations of sporadic groups""; ""Chapter 7: Factorizations of alternating groups""; ""Chapter 8: Factorizations of exceptional groups of Lie type""; ""Chapter 9: On maximal subgroups of symmetric and alternating groups""

""Appendix 1: Lower bounds for dimensions of representations of sporadic groups""""Appendix 2: Uniqueness of certain representations of Suz and Co[sub(1)]""; ""Appendix 3: Orbit decomposition of B[sub(4)](q) on a spin module""; ""References""