Symmetric Generation of Groups

Robert T. Curtis

ISBN 10: 052185721X / ISBN 13: 9780521857215

Verlag: Cambridge University Press Jul 2007, 2007

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Some of the most beautiful mathematical objects found in the last forty years are the sporadic simple groups. But gaining familiarity with these groups presents problems for two reasons. Firstly, they were discovered in many different ways, so to understand their constructions in depth one needs to study lots of different techniques. Secondly, since each of them is in a sense recording some exceptional symmetry in spaces of certain dimensions, they are by their nature highly complicated objects with a rich underlying combinatorial structure. Motivated by initial results which showed that the Mathieu groups can be generated by highly symmetrical sets of elements, which themselves have a natural geometric definition, the author develops from scratch the notion of symmetric generation. He exploits this technique by using it to define and construct many of the sporadic simple groups including all the Janko groups and the Higman-Sims group. For researchers and postgraduates. 332 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Symmetric Generation of Groups
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Jul 2007
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052185721X
• ISBN-13: 9780521857215
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This comprehensive text develops the notion of symmetric generation from scratch and goes on to describe how the technique can be used to define and construct many of the sporadic simple groups (including the Mathieu groups, the Janko groups and the Higman-Sims group) in a uniform and accessible way.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert T. Curtis is Professor of Combinatorial Algebra and Head of Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. He also holds the post of Librarian for the London Mathematical Society.