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Minimal sized generating sets of permutation groups

Group Theory 2025-07-08 v3

Abstract

We present a randomised variant of an algorithm of Lucchini and Thakkar for finding a smallest sized generating set in a finite group, which has polynomial time expected running time in finite permutation groups.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.03952,
  title  = {Minimal sized generating sets of permutation groups},
  author = {Derek F. Holt and Gareth Tracey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03952},
  year   = {2025}
}
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