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The Minimal Degrees of Faithful Representations of the Sporadic Simple Groups and their Covering Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Christoph Jansen
Christoph Jansen
Affiliation:
Itergo, Informationstechnologic GmbH, Victoriaplatz 1, 40477 Düsseldorf, Germany, christoph.jansen@itergo.com

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The minimal degrees of faithful representations of all sporadic simple groups and their covering groups are determined in this paper.

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Research Article
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LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 8 , 2005 , pp. 122 - 144
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Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2005

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