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Tag Archives: CFSG
A small problem
In connection with the research discussion about graphs and groups, I began to wonder which finite groups have the property that any two elements of the same order are conjugate. I thought about this, and got a certain distance, and … Continue reading
Prospects in Mathematics, 2
I didn’t say anything about my own talk at the Prospects in Mathematics meeting. But soon afterwards I was re-reading Lee Smolin’s 2006 book The Trouble with Physics, and it resonated with some of the things I said. My topic … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, events
Tagged CFSG, Classification of Finite Simple Groups, Lee Smolin, string theory
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Commuting graph, 2
Last week Chris Parker gave a very interesting talk in the London Algebra Colloquium on this topic. It is an excellent example of a curious phenomenon. If you look for your keys under the lamppost, then in a Borgesian way … Continue reading
Posted in exposition
Tagged Borges, CFSG, Classification of Finite Simple Groups, special 2-groups
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Finding derangements without CFSG
Nearly two years ago, I posed the problem of finding an “elementary” deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for finding a fixed-point-free element (or derangement) in a transitive permutation group. The background is that there are so many fpf elements (at least a … Continue reading
Finite simple groups
The blog Gödel’s Last Letter and P=NP is always worth reading. The two bloggers, RJ Lipton and KW Regan, are computer scientists, but they have interesting things to say about developments in mathematics, and other areas too. For example, last year they … Continue reading
Posted in exposition
Tagged CFSG, computer checking, finite simple groups, KW Regan, new simple group, RJ Lipton
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A permutation group challenge, 3
“Then I will do it myself”, said the little red hen. And she did. Since nobody took up the challenge, I had to do it myself. Let λ be a partition of n. We say that a permutation group G … Continue reading
Posted in open problems
Tagged 6-transitive groups, CFSG, partition-transitive groups
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A permutation group challenge
Long ago, in the distant past before the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, Peter Neumann, Jan Saxl and I investigated the class of permutation groups acting on sets of even cardinality n = 2k, with the following interchange property: Any subset of … Continue reading
Posted in exposition, open problems
Tagged CFSG, homogeneity, permutation groups, semigroups
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35ACCMCC at Monash
I’ve just spent a week at the 35th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing at Monash University in Clayton, a suburb of Melbourne. The conference happened to coincide with a research visit to Monash, about which I will … Continue reading
Posted in events
Tagged CFSG, crimson rosellas, Gray codes, kookaburras, loops, sulphur-crested cockatoos
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