Geometry of Sporadic Groups
Geometry of Sporadic Groups
This book is the first volume in a two-volume set, which will provide the complete proof of classification of two important classes of geometries, closely related to each other: Petersen and tilde geometries. There is an infinite family of tilde geometries associated with non-split extensions of symplectic groups over a field of two elements. Besides that there are twelve exceptional Petersen and tilde geometries. These exceptional geometries are related to sporadic simple groups, including the famous Monster group and this volume gives a construction for each of the Petersen and tilde geometries which provides an independent existence proof for the corresponding automorphism group. Important applications of Petersen and Tilde geometries are considered, including the so-called Y-presentations for the Monster and related groups, and a complete indentification of Y-groups is given. This is an essential purchase for researchers into finite group theory, finite geometries and algebraic combinatorics.
- Presents for the first time a self-contained construction of many sporadic group including the Monster group
- Parts of the book are suitable for graduate courses
- Author is widely respected for his work in this area
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: '… this book is an essential purchase for researcher in finite group theory, finite geometries and algebraic combinatorics.' Anatoli Kondrat'ev, Zentralblatt für Mathematik
Product details
June 1999Hardback
9780521413626
424 pages
236 × 159 × 28 mm
0.705kg
25 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mathieu groups
- 3. Geometry of Mathieu groups
- 4. Conway groups
- 5. The monster
- 6. From Cn- to Tn-geometries
- 7. 2-covers of P-geometries
- 8. Y-groups
- 9. Locally projective graphs
- Bibliography
- Index.
