The Mathieu group
is a sporadic group of group
order
.
It is a simple group and a subgroup
of the symmetric group
. 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
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
both have group order
1. The Mathieu group M23 is
a subgroup of index
24. According to the ATLAS, standard generators
and
may be chosen so that
,
,
,
, and
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
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
." https://brauer.maths.qmul.ac.uk/Atlas/v3/spor/M24/.Referenced
on Wolfram|Alpha
Mathieu Group M24
Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Mathieu Group M24."
From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MathieuGroupM24.html
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