Simultaneous Constructions of the Sporadic Groups Co_2 and Fi_{22}

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2009-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0623v1

Computational Group Theory and the Theory of Groups, Contemporary Mathematics Proceedings vol. 470, Amer. Math. Soc, Providenc

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Group Theory

94 pages

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In this article we give self-contained existence proofs for the sporadic simple groups Co_2 and Fi_{22} using the second author's algorithm [10] constructing finite simple groups from irreducible subgroups of GL_n(2). These two sporadic groups were originally discovered by J. Conway [4] and B. Fischer [7], respectively, by means of completely different and unrelated methods. In this article n=10 and the irreducible subgroups are the Mathieu group M_{22} and its automorphism group Aut(M_{22}). We construct their five non-isomorphic extensions E_i by the two 10-dimensional non-isomorphic simple modules of M_{22} and by the two 10-dimensional simple modules of A_{22} = Aut(M_{22}) over F=GF(2). In two cases we construct the centralizer H_i = C_{G_i}(z_i) of a 2-central involution z_i of E_i in any target simple group G_i. Then we prove that all the conditions of Algorithm 7.4.8 of [11] are satisfied. This allows us to construct G_3 $\cong$ Co_2 inside GL_{23}(13) and G_2 $\cong$ Fi_{22} inside GL_{78}(13). We also calculate their character tables and presentations.

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