$$M_{24}$$ -Orbits of Octad Triples

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 34 - Trang 1429-1443 - 2018
Veronica Kelsey1, Peter Rowley1
1School of Mathematics, Manchester University, Manchester, UK

Tóm tắt

An octad triple is a set of three octads, octads being the blocks of the S(5, 8, 24) Steiner system. In this paper we determine the orbits of $$M_{24}$$ , the largest Mathieu group, upon the set of octad triples.

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