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Maximal subgroups of sporadic groups

Group Theory 2017-01-20 v2

Abstract

A systematic study of maximal subgroups of the sporadic simple groups began in the 1960s. The work is now almost complete, only a few cases in the Monster remaining outstanding. We give a survey of results obtained, and methods used, over the past 50 years, for the classification of maximal subgroups of sporadic simple groups, and their automorphism groups.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1701.02095,
  title  = {Maximal subgroups of sporadic groups},
  author = {Robert A. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02095},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in Proceedings of the Princeton Conference, November 2015, AMS Contemporary Mathematics series. Version 2 with a minor correction to the last table

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