Maximal subgroups of symmetric groups

DOI10.1006/jcta.1996.0082zbMath0866.20003OpenAlexW2057847604MaRDI QIDQ1924231

Aner Shalev, Martin W. Liebeck

Publication date: 13 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0d9ed257537001ebd89850da399544bd16ff90d7

zbMATH Keywords

groups of Lie typefinite almost simple groupsfinite symmetric groupsclassification of finite simple groupsO'Nan-Scott theoremnumber of conjugacy classes of maximal subgroupsprimitive maximal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Maximal subgroups (20E28) Special subgroups (Frattini, Fitting, etc.) (20D25) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Primitive groups (20B15) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35)

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