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The action of a maximal parabolic subgroup on the transpositions of the Baby Monster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Robert A. Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.
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Abstract

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We prove a technical result required by Ivanov and Shpectorov in their construction of a non-split extension of 34371 by the Baby Monster simple group.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 185 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1994

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