A method for building permutation representations of finitely presented groups

Gabriele Nebe, Richard Parker, and Sarah Rees

Keywords

finitely presented groups; computational methods; permutation representation

Status

Published in Proceedings of Finite Simple Groups: Thirty Years of the Atlas and Beyond, Princeton 2015.

Abstract

We design an algorithm to find certain partial permutation representations of a finitely presented group $G$ (the bricks) that may be combined to a transitive permutation representation of $G$ (the mosaic) on the disjoint union.

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