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The Mathieu group $M_{23}$ as additive functions on the finite field of size ${2^{11}}$

Group Theory 2022-01-04 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We explicitly extend the standard permutation action of the Mathieu group M23M_{23} on a 23 element set C=C23C=C_{23} contained in a finite field of 2112^{11} elements F211\mathbb{F}_{2^{11}} to additive functions on this finite field. That is we represent M23M_{23} as functions φ:F211F211\varphi:\mathbb{F}_{2^{11}}\to \mathbb{F}_{2^{11}} such that φ(x+y)=φ(x)+φ(y)\varphi(x+y)=\varphi(x)+\varphi(y) and φC\varphi|_{C} is the standard permutation action. We give explicit 11×1111\times 11 matrices for the pair of standard generators of order 2323 and order 55, as well as many tables to help facilitate future calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00108,
  title  = {The Mathieu group $M_{23}$ as additive functions on the finite field of size ${2^{11}}$},
  author = {Yiming Bing and Bright Hu and Ronni Hu and Rhianna Li and Stefan Lu and Finn McDonald and Michael Sun and Nicholas Wolfe and Joshua Yao and Leon Zhou and Nathan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00108},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages