p-groups in the Betti-Mathieu group

Mathieu Groups

In this essay, we will discuss some interesting properties of the Mathieu groups, which are a family of five sporadic finite simple groups, as well as some closely related topics. One construction of the Mathieu groups involves Steiner systems, so we will begin by discussing Steiner systems.

P. Mathieu

Decoding the Mathieu Group

The sporadic Mathieu group M12 can be viewed as an errorcorrecting code, where the codewords are the group’s elements written as permutations in list form, and with the usual Hamming distance. We investigate the properties of this group as a code, in particular determining completely the probabilities of successful and ambiguous decoding of words with more than 3 errors (which is the number tha...

The Mathieu groups and designs

In the early 80-ties it became clear that the classification of the non-abelian finite simple groups was complete. Among the finite simple groups we find several families: the alternating groups and various families of groups of Lietype and their twisted analogues. Besides these families there exist 26 sporadic finite simple groups. In these notes we consider five sporadic simple groups, the Ma...

the automorphism group for $p$-central $p$-groups

a $p$-group $g$ is $p$-central if $g^{p}le z(g)$‎, ‎and $g$ is‎ ‎$p^{2}$-abelian if $(xy)^{p^{2}}=x^{p^{2}}y^{p^{2}}$ for all $x,yin‎ ‎g$‎. ‎we prove that for $g$ a finite $p^{2}$-abelian $p$-central‎ ‎$p$-group‎, ‎excluding certain cases‎, ‎the order of $g$ divides the‎ ‎order of $text{aut}(g)$‎.