Simple groups, probabilistic methods, and a conjecture of Kantor and Lubotzky

DOI10.1006/jabr.1996.0248zbMath0870.20014OpenAlexW1991569828WikidataQ123165468 ScholiaQ123165468MaRDI QIDQ1923943

Martin W. Liebeck, Aner Shalev

Publication date: 21 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1996.0248

zbMATH Keywords

involutionsfinite simple groups of Lie typepairs of generatorsminimal index of proper subgroupsnumbers of elements of given ordersrandomly choosen elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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