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Presentations of the Groups SL(2, m) And PSL(2, m)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. G. Sunday
J. G. Sunday*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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In this paper, we refine the presentations of Behr and Mennicke [1] for SL(2, m) and PSL(2, m) where m is odd. The group SL(2, m) is first shown to be presented by the following system of generators and relations:

1.1

The group PSL(2, m) appears as the factor group

1.2

This simplification then permits us to use the results of Schur [3] to establish three-relation presentations for these groups.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 1972 , pp. 1129 - 1131
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

References

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