Talk:Janko group J1

Latest comment: 17 years ago by Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX

I would like to see more somewhere about the G2 groups. Leonard Dickson reported their discovery in 1905, but for some reason did not go on to get results on the other exceptional Lie algebras. That was done by Chevalley in 1955. Why 50 years?

I thought the best place to cite Dickson's paper was in the article on groups of Lie type.

These groups occur elsewhere. Conway 1 contains G2(4), which in turn contains the Hall-Janko group. G2(2) is not simple, but contains the simple group of order 6048, with index 2.

I wonder whether J1 has been found in G2(19). Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX 23:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply