Alternating Quotients of Fuchsian Groups
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Brent Everitt
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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It is shown that any finitely generated, non-elementary Fuchsian group has among its homomorphic images all but finitely many of the alternating groups A n . This settles in the affirmative a long-standing conjecture of Graham Higman.