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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Simply

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:42 am
 

"So to obtain the isomorphism from L2(7) onto L3(2) we simply
multiply any given permutation of L2(7) by the affine translation
that restores to its rightful place."

— Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups ,
by John H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane.
First edition, 1988, published by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
Chapter 11 (by J. H. Conway), "The Golay Codes and the Mathieu Groups," 
Section 12, "The trio group 26:(S3×L2(7))"

Compare and contrast —

Why PSL(2,7) is isomorphic to GL(3.2)

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