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Mathieu Group M24


The Mathieu group M_(24) is a sporadic group of group order 244823040=2^(10)·3^3·5·7·11·23. It is a simple group and a subgroup of the symmetric group S_(24). Its natural group action on 24 points is transitive on ordered 5-tuples of distinct points. It is the automorphism group of the Steiner system S(5,8,24) and of the extended binary Golay code.

The group is also the automorphism group of the large Witt graph (Brouwer).

The Schur multiplier and outer automorphism group of M_(24) both have group order 1. The Mathieu group M23 is a subgroup of index 24. According to the ATLAS, standard generators a and b may be chosen so that a, b, ab, abababbababbabb, and abababb have orders 2, 3, 23, 4, and 12, respectively.

The group is implemented in the Wolfram Language as MathieuGroupM24[]. Pegg (2016) gives an interactive visualization of words in two group generators for M_(24) represented by matrices over a finite field.


See also

Golay Code, Large Witt Graph, Mathieu Group M23, Mathieu Groups, Simple Group, Sporadic Group, Steiner System

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References

Brouwer, A. E. "The Octad Graph." https://aeb.win.tue.nl/graphs/M24.html.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_(24)." https://brauer.maths.qmul.ac.uk/Atlas/v3/spor/M24/.

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Mathieu Group M24

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Mathieu Group M24." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MathieuGroupM24.html

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