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Conjugacy Class Representatives in Fischer's Baby Monster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Robert A. Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, R.A.Wilson@bham.ac.uk

Abstract

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A set conjugacy class representatives is given in this paper for the elements in Fischer's baby monster simple group, up to inversion.

Type
Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 5 , 2002 , pp. 175 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2002

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