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Mathieu Group M12


The Mathieu group M_(12) is a sporadic group of group order 95040=2^6·3^3·5·11. It is a simple group and a subgroup of the symmetric group S_(12). Its natural group action on 12 points is transitive on ordered 5-tuples of distinct points, with a unique group element sending any such tuple to any other. It is the automorphism group of the Steiner system S(5,6,12).

The Schur multiplier and outer automorphism group of M_(12) both have group order 2. A point stabilizer in its natural group action is isomorphic to M11. According to the ATLAS, standard generators a and b may be chosen so that a, b, ab, and ababab^2 have orders 2, 3, 11, and 6, respectively.

The group is implemented in the Wolfram Language as MathieuGroupM12[]. Pegg (2016) gives an interactive visualization of words in two group generators for M_(12) represented by matrices over a finite field.


See also

Mathieu Group M11, Mathieu Groups, Simple Group, Sporadic Group, Steiner System

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References

Conway, J. H.; Curtis, R. T.; Norton, S. P.; Parker, R. A.; and Wilson, R. A. Atlas of Finite Groups: Maximal Subgroups and Ordinary Characters for Simple Groups. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1985.Conway, J. H. and Sloane, N. J. A. "The Golay Codes and the Mathieu Groups." Ch. 11 in Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 299-330, 1993. Pegg, E. Jr. "Sporadic Groups." Wolfram Demonstrations Project. 2016. https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SporadicGroups/.Wilson, R. A. "ATLAS: Mathieu Group M_(12)." https://brauer.maths.qmul.ac.uk/Atlas/v3/spor/M12/.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Mathieu Group M12." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MathieuGroupM12.html

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