Maximal subgroups of sporadic groups

2017/01/09 by Wilson, Robert A.
#20D08 #FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.02095

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.

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