Construction of the Rudvalis group of order 145,926,144,000☆
Construction of the Rudvalis group of order 145,926,144,000☆
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Rudvalis集团建设工程订单145,926,144,000☆
DOI:
10.1016/0021-8693(73)90063-x
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发表时间:
1973
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通讯作者:
D.B Wales
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作者:
J.H Conway;D.B Wales
Recently, Arunas Rudvalis [l] provided evidence for the existence of a new simple group R of order 145,926,144,000= 2r4* 33* 5a. 7* 13. 29. He describes the group as a rank 3 permutation group on 4060 letters, in which the stabilizer of a point is the (nonsimple) Ree group F= V’,(2), which has orbits of sizes 1, 1755, 2304, corresponding to subgroups of F of orders 20480 and 15600. The first of these is the centralizer of an involution of F, while the second has the known subgroup L= PSLa (25) of P’(see Ref.[4]) as a subgroup of index 2.Since one of the involutions in R has no fixed point and so just 2030 2-cycles, an argument of Griess and Schur [2] shows that R has a proper double cover 2R. Rudvalis and Frame gave evidence for supposing that this group had a 28-dimensional complex representation not splitting over F.(Feit and Lyons have proved this under further assumptions on R.) We suppose that this unitary representation of 2R exists while constructing the group, but then conclude independently of this supposition that the construction defines a group 2R whose central quotient is R. It turns out that in the 2% dimensional representation of 217 the 4060 letters become 4060 quadruplets of four vectors~ 1, iv,-ZJ,--iv. The stabilizer of any quadruplet is a (not proper) double cover 2F of F, and the stabilizer