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A characterization of the group Aut(PGL(3, 4))

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

D. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
Monash UniversityVictoria, Australia
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In a recent paper, Z. Janko [5] announced the discovery of two new finite non-abelian simple groups and characterized these groups in terms of the centralizer of an involution. In fact, he proved the following result.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1970

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