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Generating wreath products of symmetric and alternating groups

Group Theory 2021-08-02 v2

Abstract

We show that the wreath product of two finite symmetric or alternating groups is 2-generated.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.05378,
  title  = {Generating wreath products of symmetric and alternating groups},
  author = {James East and James D Mitchell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05378},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. V2 incorporates referee's suggestions; to appear in the NZ Journal of Math