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- Title
ORDERS OF SIMPLE GROUPS AND THE BATEMAN--HORN CONJECTURE.
- Authors
JONES, GARETH A.; ZVONKIN, ALEXANDER K.
- Abstract
We use the Bateman--Horn Conjecture from number theory to give strong evidence of a positive answer to Peter Neumann's question, whether there are infinitely many simple groups of order a product of six primes. (Those with fewer than six were classified by Burnside, Frobenius and Hölder in the 1890s.) The groups satisfying this condition are PSL2(8), PSL2(9) and PSL2(p) for primes p such that p² -- 1 is a product of six primes. The conjecture suggests that there are infinitely many such primes p, by providing heuristic estimates for their distribution which agree closely with evidence from computer searches. We also briefly discuss the applications of this conjecture to other problems in group theory, such as the classifications of permutation groups and of linear groups of prime degree, the structure of the power graph of a finite simple group, the construction of highly symmetric block designs, and the possible existence of infinitely many Kn groups for each n ≥ 5.
- Subjects
LINEAR orderings; FINITE simple groups; GROUP theory; NUMBER theory; LOGICAL prediction; PERMUTATION groups; ELECTRONIC information resource searching
- Publication
International Journal of Group Theory, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
2251-7650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22108/ijgt.2023.136666.1828