Twelve Sporadic Groups
The finite simple groups are basic objects in algebra since many questions about general finite groups can be reduced to questions about the simple groups. Finite simple groups occur naturally in certain infinite families, but not so for all of them: the
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Robert L. Griess, Jr.
Twelve Sporadic Groups
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Robert L. Griess, lr. Department of Mathematics University of Michigan 2072 East HaU Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109 USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Mathematics Subject Classification (1991 ):20B20, 20B25, 20D05, 20E32, 20F29
ISBN 978-3-642-08305-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-03516-0
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Acknowledgements
3
Notation for Simple Groups
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Chapter 1. Background from General Group Theory
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4 5
Chapter 2. Assumed Results about Particular Groups
11
Chapter 3. Codes
24
Chapter 4. The Hexacode
30
Chapter 5. The Golay Code
36
Chapter 6. Subgroups of M
24
54
Chapter 7. The Ternary Golay Code and 2·M 12
76
Chapter 8. Lattices
88
Chapter 9. The Leech Lattice and Conway Groups
95
Chapter 10. Subgroups of the Conway Groups; the Simple Groups of Higman-Sims, McLaughlin, Hall-Janko and Suzuki; Local Subgroups; Conjugacy Classes .............................. Appendix lOA. D. G. Higman's Theory of Rank 3 Permutation Groups Appendix lOB. Classification Theorems ......................... Appendix lOC. Tables of Stabilizers ............................ Appendix lOD. Maximal Subgroups ............................ Appendix lOE. Nick Patterson's Thesis ......................... Appendix lOF. Character Tables ...............................
104 123 125 126 127 127 129
Chapter 11. Generation Three of the Happy Family and the Pariahs Appendix. Some Comments on the Atlas ........................
146 153
References
154
Index
161
List of Group Theoretic Notations
168
The Orders of the Finite Simple Groups
169
Introduction
The finite simple groups are basic objects in algebra since many questions about general finit
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