In this article we construct an irreducible simple subgroup G = 〈q, y, t, w〉 of GL8671(13) from an irreducible subgroup T of GL11(2) isomorphic to Mathieu’s simple group M24 by means of Algorithm 2.5 of [13]. We also use the first author’s similar construction of Fischer’s sporadic simple group G1 = Fi23 described in [11]. He starts from an irreducible subgroup T1 of GL11(2) contained in T whic...

4.1 Eigenvalues and Optimization I cannot believe that I have managed to teach three lectures on spectral graph theory without giving the characterization of eigenvalues as solutions to optimization problems. It is one of the most useful ways of understanding eigenvalues of symmetric matrices. To begin, let A be a symmetric matrix with eigenvalues α1 ≥ α2 ≥ · · · ≥ αn, and corresponding orthono...

Introduction. In this paper we shall be concerned with the structure of the rational representation of certain sets of matrices, to which we give the name generalized Fischer sets. If K is any field, any fixed automorphism of K, and A any matrix with elements in K, we use the notation A* for the 0-automorph of A ; that is, the matrix obtained from A by subjecting each of its elements to the...