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Presentations of finite simple groups: profinite and cohomological approaches

  • Robert M. Guralnick

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

  • William M. Kantor

    University of Oregon, Eugene, United States

  • Martin Kassabov

    Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

  • Alexander Lubotzky

    Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Abstract

We prove the following three closely related results:

  1. Every finite simple group G has a profinite presentation with 2 generators and at most 18 relations.
  2. If G is a finite simple group, F a field and M is an FG-module, then  dim H2(G,M) ≤ (17.5) dim M.
  3. If G is a finite group, F a field and M is an irreducible faithful FG-module, then dim H2(G,M) ≤ (18.5) dim M.

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Robert M. Guralnick, William M. Kantor, Martin Kassabov, Alexander Lubotzky, Presentations of finite simple groups: profinite and cohomological approaches. Groups Geom. Dyn. 1 (2007), no. 4, pp. 469–523

DOI 10.4171/GGD/22