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Can MAGMA compute almost projective $kG$-homomorphisms?

Let $G$ be a finite group and $k$ be a finite field (big enough) whith char$(k)=p$ and $p\mid |G|$. Let $M$ be a finitely generated $kG$-module. We denote the first syzygy of $M$ by $\Omega(M)$, i.e....
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Where or how can I find matrix representatives of the conjugacy classes of Conway's group Co₀?

I would like to find ($24\times 24$) matrices representing the various conjugacy classes of Conway's group $\mathrm{Co}_0$ acting on the Leech lattice in the usual coordinate system given by the MOG. ...
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Groups without factorization

A group G is said to have a factorization if there exist proper subgroups $A$ and $B$ such that $G = AB = \{ ab \ | \ a \in A, b \in B \}$. The paper Factorisations of sporadic simple groups (...
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The sporadic numbers

Let call $n$ a sporadic number if the set of groups $G \neq A_n,S_n$ having a core-free maximal subgroup of index $n$ is non-empty and contains only sporadic simple groups. By GAP, the set of all the ...
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Maximal factorization of finite simple groups and no extra intermediate

The book The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups (by Martin W. Liebeck, Cheryl E. Praeger and Jan Saxl) provides a classification of all the triples $(G,A,...
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Satake correspondence for groups over finite field

I asked the same question in MSE, but I didn't get any answer. So I decided to post it here, too. In Langlands' program, Satake correspondence gives a correspondence between unramified ...
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nauty/traces orbit sizes for colored graph?

I'm given a graph $G$ (<1000 vertices, large automorphism group), and a large number (~10^6-10^10) of different colorings of said graph. I have two tasks. Calculate the canonical coloring. I can ...
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Are there any computational problems in groups that are harder than P?

There are several well known classes of groups for which the word problem, conjugacy etc. are solvable in polynomial time (hyperbolic, automatic). Then there are several classes of groups like ...
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Permutation groups with diameter $O(n \log n)$

I suspect that many permutation puzzles can be solved in $O(n \log n)$ moves, which has led me to the following question/conjecture: Suppose that 1. $P_i$ for $i<k=O(1)$ are permutations on an $n$ ...
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Research in applied algebra

I am in my final year of my doctoral study in Mathematics, where my research topic is $p$-groups, specifically classification of $p$-groups by coclass. My work involves a great deal of computation in ...
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Is the cohomology ring of a finite group computable?

Is there an algorithm which halts on all inputs that takes as input a finite group ($p$-group if you like) and outputs a finite presentation of the cohomology ring (with trivial coefficients $\mathbb{...
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Generating sets of the symmetric group that yield isomorphic Cayley graphs

Let $S$ and $S'$ be subsets of size $k$ of $\mathfrak{S}_n$. Are there any necessary or sufficient conditions to determine whether or not $S$ and $S'$ yield isomorphic Cayley graphs? Assuming we ...
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A stronger version of a problem of Kenneth Brown using representations

Let $G$ be a finite group and $\mathcal{L}(G)$ its subgroup lattice. Let $\mu$ be the Möbius function on $\mathcal{L}(G)$. The reduced Euler characteristic of the order complex of the coset poset $\{ ...
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Factoring in discrete Heisenberg group $H_3(\mathbb{Z})$

Let $H_3(\mathbb{Z})$ be the discrete Heisenberg group generated by $x=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 1 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 1\\ \end{pmatrix},\ \ y=\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 &...
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Detecting/Characterising positive elements in free groups

Let $X$ be a set, and let $F(X)$ be the free group generated by $X$. I will say that an element of $F(X)$ is positive if it is in the monoid generated by all the conjugates in $F(X)$ of every member ...
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Is the word problem in the braid group quotient $B_{n}/N$ solvable where $N$ is the normal subgroup generated by conjugates of $\sigma_{i}^{2r}$?

Let $r\geq 2$. Let $N$ be the normal subgroup of $B_{n}$ generated by conjugates of $\sigma_{i}^{2r}$. Then is the word problem in the quotient group $B_{n}/N$ solvable (in polynomial time)? ...
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Extension of Tits' theorem on groups with a BN-pair of rank ≥ 3

Tits has proved that a finite simple group $G$ with a BN-pair of rank $n \ge 3$, is of Lie type. Let $B$ be the Borel subgroup and $(W,S)$ the Coxeter system. The subset lattice of the set $S$ is ...
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How quickly can one compute the Hurwitz action of braid groups on finite groups?

Let $G$ be a finite group. Define the Hurwitz action of $B_{n}$ on $G^{n}$ by letting $(x_{1},...,x_{n})\sigma_{i}=(x_{1},...,x_{i}x_{i+1}x_{i}^{-1},x_{i},x_{i+2},...,x_{n})$. I wonder what algorithms ...
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minimal permutation representations [duplicate]

Suppose I have a finite group $G.$ How hard is it to find the (a?) minimal degree permutation representation of $G?$ The second part of the question is: is there a table of such (hopefully for ...
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A relation between intersection and product on Boolean interval of finite groups

Let $[H,G]$ be a Boolean interval of finite groups (i.e. the lattice of intermediate subgroups $H \subseteq K \subseteq G$, is Boolean). For any element $K \in [H,G]$, let $K^{\complement}$ be its ...
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What are the rank 3 boolean intervals [H,G], with G simple group?

The rank $n$ boolean lattice $B_{n}$ is the subset lattice of $\{1,2, \dots , n\}$. The lattice $B_{3}$ is the following: Question: What are the rank $3$ boolean intervals of the form $[H,G]$, ...
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Is there an interval of finite groups, at index n, with strictly more elements than the subgroup lattice of any group, of order n?

Let $G$ be a finite group and $\mathcal{L}(G)$ its subgroup lattice. Let $s(n):= max\{|\mathcal{L}(G)| \text{ for } |G|=n \}$. There is an OEIS page for the sequence $s(n)$: A018216 1, 2, 2, 5, 2, ...
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A good upper-bound for the cardinal of an interval of finite groups

This post is a relative version of General bound for the number of subgroups of a finite group Let $[H,G]$ be a interval of finite groups with $|G:H| = n$. Question: What is a good upper-bound of $|[...
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Nonvanishing of the dual Euler totient on boolean intervals of finite groups

The rank $n$ boolean lattice $B_n$, is the subset lattice of $\{1,2, \dotsm n \}$. Let $[H,G]$ be a boolean interval of finite groups. Its Euler totient is defined by $$\varphi(H,G):=\sum_{K \in ...
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Torsion-free, normal subgroups of certain Coxeter groups

Let $G$ be the reflection group of a regular, 4-dimensional, hyperbolic honeycomb. I would like to find a family $H_i < G$ of finite-index, torsion-free subgroups of $G$, so that I can represent ...
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An optimal lower bound related to generators in a boolean interval of finite groups

Let $[H,G]$ be a rank $n$ boolean interval of finite groups (i.e. $[H,G] \simeq B_n$ as lattice). Let the set $E = \{ g \in G \ | \ \langle H,g \rangle = G \}$ Remark: If $g \in E$ then $Hg \...
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Positivity of the alternating sum of indices for boolean interval of finite groups

Let $G$ be a finite group and $H$ a subgroup such that the interval $[H,G]$ is a boolean lattice. Let $L_1, \dots , L_n$ be the maximal subgroups of $G$ containing $H$. Let the alternative sum ...
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About $c(A)$ in $c(A)|A|\leq |A^{-1}A|$

Let $G$ be a finite group, $\emptyset\neq A\subseteq G$, $A^{-1}:=\{ a^{-1}:a\in A\}$, and put $$c(A):=\max\{t\in \mathbb{Z}: t|A|\leq |A^{-1}A|\}$$ It is clear that $1\leq c(A)\leq \frac{|G|}{|A|}$, ...
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programming to compute kernel quotient image of a $\mathbb{Z}$-module endomorphism

Let the integers $n\geq 2$, $k\geq 1$, $v=0$ or $1$ and $n_1,\cdots,n_k\geq 1$ such that $$ \sum_{i=1}^k n_i+v=n. $$ Define $P_a^b=0$ if both $a,b$ are odd and $P_a^b={{[a/2]}\choose {[(a+b)/2]}}$ ...
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Computational Algebra and Symbolic Computation - Where? [closed]

Following the line of this question, I'm in my last year of M.Sc., and I'm looking for a place where I can start my PHD. Since that question has been asked 4 years ago, I thought it may be wise to ask ...
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Is a boolean interval of finite groups linearly primitive?

Let $[H,G]$ be an interval of finite groups. Definition: Let $W$ be a representation of $G$, and $X$ a subspace of $W$. Let the fixed-point subspace $W^{H}:=\{w \in W \ \vert \ kw=w \ , \forall h \...
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Is there a way to find an efficient set of relations for presenting the subgroup generated by two matrices in $SL(2, q)$?

Given two elements $a, b \in SL(2, \mathbb{F}_q)$, is there a way to find an efficient presentation $$\langle x, y \mid \text{relations}\rangle$$ of the subgroup $\langle a, b \rangle$? My intention ...
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Transitivity on $\mathbb{N}_0$ — a 42 problem

Let $r(m)$ denote the residue class $r+m\mathbb{Z}$, where $0 \leq r < m$. Given disjoint residue classes $r_1(m_1)$ and $r_2(m_2)$, let the class transposition $\tau_{r_1(m_1),r_2(m_2)}$ be the ...
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Are the finite groups inclusions, almost all relatively cyclic?

Definition: An inclusion of finite groups $(A \subset B)$ is relatively cyclic if $\exists b \in B$ such that $\langle A,b \rangle = B$. Definition: Two inclusions of finite groups are equivalent, $(...
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Is a prime index inclusion of finite groups, separating?

Let $(H \subset G)$ be an inclusion of finite groups. Let $\{ g_i \ \vert \ i \in I=[1, \dots ,n] \}$ a subset of $G$ of double coset representatives, i.e. $$G = \coprod_{i \in I} Hg_iH$$ On the ...
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Computing a transversal of a subgroup $H$ of $G$ in expected $O(|G : H|^2 \log |G : H| + |H|)$ time

I have the book "Handbook of Computational Group Theory", by Derek Holt, and in it is a section on finding the transversal of a subgroup. Recall a transversal of a subgroup $H$ of $G$ is a single ...
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Generalization of the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups 2

This post is a sequel of Generalization of the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups Let $G$ be a finite group then the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups can be formulated as follows: Theorem: $G$ ...
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Generalization of the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups

Let $G$ be a finite group then the fundamental theorem of cyclic groups can be formulated as follows: Theorem: $G$ is cyclic iff it admits no two different subgroups with the same order. proof: see ...
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Is there a nonabelian finite simple group with Grothendieck ring of multiplicity one?

Let $G$ be a finite group. It admits finitely many irreducible complex representations $H_1, \dots, H_r$ which generate, for $\oplus$ and $\otimes$, the Grothendieck ring $\mathcal{G}(G)$ of $G$ (also ...
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Solving a set of equations in a finite symmetric group

A standard way to find solutions to a finite set of equations in a finite symmetric group ${\rm S}_n$ is to take the equations as relators of a finitely presented group, to use the low index subgroups ...
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Can any finite distributive weighted lattice be realized by inclusion of groups?

By theorem 2.1 here, any finite distributive lattice $\mathcal{L}$ can be realized as an intermediate subgroups lattice. A weighted lattice $(\mathcal{L},\tau)$ is a lattice $\mathcal{L}$ with a ...
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Are the distributive permutation groups linearly primitive?

An action of a group $G$ on a set $X \neq \emptyset$ is called transitive if $\forall x,y \in X$, $\exists g \in G$ such that $g.x = y$. It is called primitive if it is transitive and preserves no non-...
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Classification of indecomposable inclusions $(H \subset G)$ with $G$ decomposable

Definition: A group $G$ is indecomposable if: $G = G_1 \times G_2 \Rightarrow \exists i \ G_i = 1$. We can generalize the notion of indecomposable from groups to inclusion of groups as ...
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Generalization of a theorem of Øystein Ore in group theory

Theorem (Øystein Ore, 1938): A finite group $G$ is cyclic iff its lattice of subgroups $\mathcal{L}(G)$ is distributive. Proof: see below. Let $(H \subset G)$ be an inclusion of finite groups and ...
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Uniqueness of the direct product decomposition of inclusions of finite groups

This post is a generalization of Uniqueness of the direct product decomposition of finite groups. Here we look inclusions of finite groups $(H \subset G)$ instead of just finite groups. Definition: ...
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Does this class of groups contain finitely generated infinite periodic groups?

Let $r(m)$ denote the residue class $r+m\mathbb{Z}$, where $0 \leq r < m$. Given disjoint residue classes $r_1(m_1)$ and $r_2(m_2)$, let the class transposition $\tau_{r_1(m_1),r_2(m_2)}$ be the ...
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For which series of finite simple groups is it algorithmically decidable whether they contain a homomorphic image of a given finitely presented group?

Let $G$ be a group given by a finite presentation. On the one hand, it is easy to determine the abelian invariants of $G$, or in other words, it is algorithmically decidable whether $G$ surjects to a ...
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The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem in the symmetric group $S_N$

We are interested in the following notions in the case $G=S_N$, the symmetric group on $\{1,\dots,N\}$. Fix a group $G$ and a number $d$. For $(g_1,\dots,g_d)\in G^d$ and $x\in G$, define $$(g_1,\...
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Using math software to show that the following groups are infinite?

I would like to show that the following finitely presented group in 3 generators $P, Q, R$ is infinite in certain cases: $$P^p, Q^q, R^r, (PQ)^2, (QR)^2, (PQR)^2, (QR^{r/2+1})^a (RQR^{r/2})^b$$ For ...
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Another quotient of Hurwitz group

The paper An update on Hurwitz groups by Marston Conder seems to suggest that the Chevalley group $G(2,5)$ of order $5859000000$ is a quotient of $G := \langle a, b \ | \ a^2, b^3, (ab)^7, [a,b]^{10} \...

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