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The Universal Nonabelian Representation of the Petersen Type Geometry Related toJ4

✍ Scribed by Alexander A Ivanov; Sergey V Shpectorov


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
345 KB
Volume
191
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis


Let G G be a geometry with three points on each line. The universal representa-Ž . tion group R G G of G G is generated by a set of involutions, one for each point, subject to the relations that for every line the product of the three generators corresponding to the points on the line is the identity. Let J be the fourth 4 Ž . sporadic simple group of Janko and let G G J be the Petersen type geometry of J 4 4

whose points and lines are subgroups of order 2 and 2 2 in J with normalizers 4 containing Sylow 2-subgroups; the incidence relation is given by inclusion. We Ž Ž .. show that R G G J is exactly J .