Timeline for Non-split extensions of $GL_n(F_q)$ by $F_q^n$ ?
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| Jul 11, 2015 at 1:15 | comment | added | Marty Isaacs | @Ladisch--Right. I should have thought of that. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Frieder Ladisch | This is a very nice argument, and it seems to me that it works for all $q>2$: just replace $-I$ by $aI$ where $a\in \mathbf{F}_q^*$ has prime order $p$ (multiplicatively, so $p$ divides $q-1$). | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 17:57 | history | answered | Marty Isaacs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |