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The Fischer-Clifford matrices of a maximal subgroup of $Fi^{\prime}_{24}$

Author(s): Faryad Ali; Jamshid Moori
Journal: Represent. Theory 7 (2003), 300-321.
MSC (2000): Primary 20C15, 20D08, 20E22
Posted: July 29, 2003
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Abstract: The Fischer group $Fi_{24}^{\prime}$ is the largest sporadic simple Fischer group of order

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The group $Fi_{24}^{\prime}$ is the derived subgroup of the Fischer $3$-transposition group $Fi_{24}$ discovered by Bernd Fischer. There are five classes of elements of order 3 in $Fi_{24}^{\prime}$ as represented in ATLAS by $3A$, $3B$, $3C$, $3D$ and $3E$. A subgroup of $Fi_{24}^{\prime}$ of order $3$ is called of type $3X$, where $X \in \{A,B,C,D,E \}$, if it is generated by an element in the class $3X$. There are six classes of maximal 3-local subgroups of $Fi_{24}^{\prime}$ as determined by Wilson. In this paper we determine the Fischer-Clifford matrices and conjugacy classes of one of these maximal 3-local subgroups $ \bar{G} := N_{Fi_{24}^{\prime}}(\langle N\rangle ) \cong 3^7{\cdot}O_7(3)$, where $N \cong 3^7$ is the natural orthogonal module for $\bar{G}/N \cong O_7(3)$ with $364$ subgroups of type $3B$ corresponding to the totally isotropic points. The group $\bar{G}$ is a nonsplit extension of $N $ by $G \cong O_7(3)$.


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Additional Information:

Faryad Ali
Affiliation: School of Mathematics, Statistics and I.T., University of Natal, Private Bag X 01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa

Jamshid Moori
Affiliation: School of Mathematics, Statistics and I.T., University of Natal, Private Bag X 01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa

DOI: 10.1090/S1088-4165-03-00175-4
PII: S 1088-4165(03)00175-4
Received by editor(s): August 29, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 7, 2003
Posted: July 29, 2003
Additional Notes: The first author was supported by a postgraduate bursary from the NRF(SA)
The second author was supported by a research grant from University of Natal and NRF(SA)
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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