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Involutions in Conway's Largest Simple Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Chris Bates  and
Peter Rowley
Chris Bates
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom, c.bates@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk, http://personalpages.umist.ac.uk/postgrad/c.bates
Peter Rowley
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom, peter, j.rowley@manchester.ac.uk, http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/pjr

Abstract

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In this paper, the authors determine the suborbits of Conways largest simple group in its conjugation action on each of its three conjugacy classes of involutions. Matrix representatives of these suborbits are also provided in an accompanying computer file.

Type
Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 7 , 2004 , pp. 337 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2004

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