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Tag Archives: O’Nan-Scott theorem
Summer school at Marienheide
Last week, I was lecturing at a summer school in Franz Dohrmann Haus, a very pleasant conference centre in the small town of Marienheide, not far from Köln. Apart from a walk on Wednesday afternoon, I didn’t get much exercise, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheryl Praeger, Csaba Schneider, O'Nan-Scott theorem, Pablo Spiga, permutation groups
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The symmetric group, 12
This instalment is about the maximal subgroups of the symmetric group, and the O’Nan–Scott Theorem. There are two versions of this theorem, one of which is sometimes called the Aschbacher–O’Nan–Scott Theorem. One is about maximal subgroups of the symmetric group … Continue reading
Posted in exposition, symmetric group
Tagged maximal subgroups, O'Nan-Scott theorem, permutation group, symmetric group
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