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Title: | On the symmetric generation of finite groups | ||||||
Author: | Fairbairn, Benjamin Thomas |
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0000 0004 2686 005X
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Awarding Body: | University of Birmingham | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Birmingham | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2009 | ||||||
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In this thesis we discuss some uses and applications of the techniques in Symmetric generation. In Chapter 1 we introduce the notions of symmetric generation. In Chapter 2 we discuss symmetric presentations defined by symmetric generating sets that are preserved by a group acting on them transitively but imprimitively. In Chapter 3 our attention turns to Coxeter groups. We show how the Coxeter-Moser presentations traditionally associated with the families of finite Coxeter groups of types A\(_n\), D\(_n\) and E\(_n\) (ie the “simply laced” Coxeter groups) may be interpreted as symmetric presentations and as such may be naturally arrived at by elementary means. In Chapter 4 we classify the irreducible monomial representations of the groups L\(_2\)(q) and use these to define symmetric generating sets of various groups.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | EPSRC | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.514151 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | QA Mathematics | ||||||
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