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12 - Permutation Actions of M24

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2024

Robert T. Curtis
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University of Birmingham
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The most combinatorially interesting maximal subgroups of M24 are the stabilizers of an octad, a duum, a sextet and a trio. In this chapter we investigate the way in which the stabilizer of one of these objects acts on the others. This involves some basic but fascinating character theory; the approach given here is intended to be self-contained. For each of the four types of object we draw a graph in which each member is joined to members of the shortest orbit of its stabilizer. Thus in the octad graph we join two octads if they are disjoint; we join two dua if they cut one another 8.4/4.8; we join two sextets if the tetrads of one cut the tetrads of the other (22.04)6; and we join two trios if they have an octad in common. A diagram of each of these four graphs is included as is the way in which these graphs decompose under the action of one of the other stabilizers. Each of these graphs is, of course, preserved by M24.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Permutation Actions of M24
  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
  • Book: The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24
  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.014
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  • Permutation Actions of M24
  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
  • Book: The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24
  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.014
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  • Permutation Actions of M24
  • Robert T. Curtis, University of Birmingham
  • Book: The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24
  • Online publication: 31 October 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009405683.014
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