RESEARCH ARTICLE

Characterization of automorphism groups of sporadic simple groups

  • Hong SHEN ,
  • Hongping CAO ,
  • Guiyun CHEN
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  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received date: 09 Jul 2010

Accepted date: 22 Mar 2012

Published date: 01 Jun 2012

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

It is proved that all automorphism groups of the sporadic simple groups are characterized by their element orders and the group orders.

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Hong SHEN , Hongping CAO , Guiyun CHEN . Characterization of automorphism groups of sporadic simple groups[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2012 , 7(3) : 513 -519 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-012-0208-3

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