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Explicit construction of the maximal subgroups of the Monster

Group Theory 2024-11-20 v1

Abstract

Seysen's Python package mmgroup provides functionality for fast computations within the sporadic simple group M\mathbb{M}, the Monster. The aim of this work is to present an mmgroup database of maximal subgroups of M\mathbb{M}: for each conjugacy class CC of maximal subgroups in M\mathbb{M}, we construct explicit group elements in mmgroup and prove that these elements generate a group in CC. Our generators and the computations verifying correctness are available in accompanying code. The maximal subgroups of M\mathbb{M} have been classified in a number of papers spanning several decades; our work constitutes an independent verification of these constructions. We also correct the claim that M\mathbb{M} has a maximal subgroup PSL2(59)\mathrm{PSL}_2({59}), and hence identify a new maximal subgroup 59:2959{:}29.

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@article{arxiv.2411.12230,
  title  = {Explicit construction of the maximal subgroups of the Monster},
  author = {Heiko Dietrich and Melissa Lee and Anthony Pisani and Tomasz Popiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12230},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages