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The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups

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Martin W. Liebeck, Cheryl E. Praeger and Jan Saxl

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1990; Volume 86, Number 432
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2494-8 (print); 978-1-4704-0855-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0432
MathSciNet review: 1016353
MSC: Primary 20D40; Secondary 20D06, 20D08, 20G40

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. Classical groups of large dimension: factorizations as a product of two geometric subgroups
  • 4. Classical groups of large dimension: factorizations in which one of the factors is non-geometric
  • 5. Classical groups of small dimension
  • 6. Factorizations of sporadic groups
  • 7. Factorizations of alternating groups
  • 8. Factorizations of exceptional groups of Lie type
  • 9. On maximal subgroups of symmetric and alternating groups
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3