Timeline for Names of finite groups
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| Dec 9, 2010 at 18:55 | history | edited | M.Z. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added reference to Mathieu groups, alternating and cyclic groups
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 14:54 | history | edited | M.Z. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
I meant transitive, thank you
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 0:48 | comment | added | Tim Dokchitser | That's right, $D_{15}$ can act faithfully on $3+5=8$ points. Smallest $n$ for which $G$ is a transitive subgroup of $S_n$? | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 0:43 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | It's not clear to me that n is the smallest index k for which D_n embeds into S_k. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 0:19 | comment | added | Tim Dokchitser | ... and, as mathematicians would put it, "This problem is a natural generalization of the dihedral case" | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 0:17 | history | answered | M.Z. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |