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29-593: (Redirected from McLaughlin Group ) McLaughlin group may refer to: McLaughlin group (mathematics) , a sporadic finite simple group The McLaughlin Group , a weekly public affairs program broadcast in the United States Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title McLaughlin group . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

58-652: A dodecad . Its centralizer has the form 2 :M 12 and has conjugates inside the monomial subgroup. Any matrix in this conjugacy class has trace 0. A permutation matrix of shape 2 1 can be shown to be conjugate to an octad ; it has trace 8. This and its negative (trace −8) have a common centralizer of the form (2 ×2).O 8 (2) , a subgroup maximal in Co 0 . Conway and Thompson found that four recently discovered sporadic simple groups, described in conference proceedings ( Brauer & Sah 1969 ), were isomorphic to subgroups or quotients of subgroups of Co 0 . Conway himself employed

87-854: A complex representation of the Leech Lattice. Conway and Norton suggested in their 1979 paper that monstrous moonshine is not limited to the monster. Larissa Queen and others subsequently found that one can construct the expansions of many Hauptmoduln from simple combinations of dimensions of sporadic groups. For the Conway groups, the relevant McKay–Thompson series is T 2 A ( τ ) {\displaystyle T_{2A}(\tau )} = {1, 0, 276, −2,048 , 11,202 , −49,152 , ...} ( OEIS :  A007246 ) and T 4 A ( τ ) {\displaystyle T_{4A}(\tau )} = {1, 0, 276, 2,048 , 11,202 , 49,152 , ...} ( OEIS :  A097340 ) where one can set

116-401: A group normal in a copy of S 3 , which commutes with a simple subgroup of order 168. A direct product PSL(2,7) × S 3 in M 24 permutes the octads of a trio and permutes 14 dodecad diagonal matrices in the monomial subgroup. In Co 0 this monomial normalizer 2 :PSL(2,7) × S 3 is expanded to a maximal subgroup of the form 2.A 9 × S 3 , where 2.A 9 is the double cover of

145-516: A notation for stabilizers of points and subspaces where he prefixed a dot. Exceptional were .0 and .1 , being Co 0 and Co 1 . For integer n ≥ 2 let .n denote the stabilizer of a point of type n (see above) in the Leech lattice. Conway then named stabilizers of planes defined by triangles having the origin as a vertex. Let .hkl be the pointwise stabilizer of a triangle with edges (differences of vertices) of types h , k and l . The triangle

174-449: Is type 3 ; it is fixed by a Co 3 . This M 22 is the monomial , and a maximal , subgroup of a representation of McL. Wilson (2009) (p. 207) shows that the subgroup McL is well-defined. In the Leech lattice , suppose a type 3 point v is fixed by an instance of C o 3 {\displaystyle \mathrm {Co} _{3}} . Count the type 2 points w such that

203-517: Is a maximal subgroup of the Lyons group . McL has one conjugacy class of involution (element of order 2), whose centralizer is a maximal subgroup of type 2.A 8 . This has a center of order 2; the quotient modulo the center is isomorphic to the alternating group A 8 . In the Conway group Co 3 , McL has the normalizer McL:2, which is maximal in Co 3 . McL has 2 classes of maximal subgroups isomorphic to

232-450: Is called a frame or cross . N has as an orbit a standard frame of 48 vectors of form (±8, 0 ). The subgroup fixing a given frame is a conjugate of N . The group 2 , isomorphic to the Golay code, acts as sign changes on vectors of the frame, while M 24 permutes the 24 pairs of the frame. Co 0 can be shown to be transitive on Λ 4 . Conway multiplied the order 2 |M 24 | of N by

261-603: Is commonly called an h-k-l triangle . In the simplest cases Co 0 is transitive on the points or triangles in question and stabilizer groups are defined up to conjugacy. Conway identified .322 with the McLaughlin group McL (order 898,128,000 ) and .332 with the Higman–Sims group HS (order 44,352,000 ); both of these had recently been discovered. Here is a table of some sublattice groups: Two sporadic subgroups can be defined as quotients of stabilizers of structures on

290-449: Is not a simple group. The simple group Co 1 of order is defined as the quotient of Co 0 by its center , which consists of the scalar matrices ±1. The groups Co 2 of order and Co 3 of order consist of the automorphisms of Λ fixing a lattice vector of type 2 and type 3, respectively. As the scalar −1 fixes no non-zero vector, these two groups are isomorphic to subgroups of Co 1 . The inner product on

319-484: Is not limited to the monster. Larissa Queen and others subsequently found that one can construct the expansions of many Hauptmoduln from simple combinations of dimensions of sporadic groups. For the Conway groups , the relevant McKay–Thompson series is T 2 A ( τ ) {\displaystyle T_{2A}(\tau )} and T 4 A ( τ ) {\displaystyle T_{4A}(\tau )} . Conway group In

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348-621: Is the subgroup (2.A 7 × PSL 2 (7)):2 . Next comes (2.A 6 × SU 3 (3)):2 . The unitary group SU 3 (3) (order 6,048 ) possesses a graph of 36 vertices, in anticipation of the next subgroup. That subgroup is (2.A 5 o 2.HJ):2 , in which the Hall–Janko group HJ makes its appearance. The aforementioned graph expands to the Hall–Janko graph , with 100 vertices. Next comes (2.A 4 o 2.G 2 (4)):2 , G 2 (4) being an exceptional group of Lie type . The chain ends with 6.Suz:2 (Suz= Suzuki sporadic group ), which, as mentioned above, respects

377-480: The Mathieu group M 22 . An outer automorphism interchanges the two classes of M 22 groups. This outer automorphism is realized on McL embedded as a subgroup of Co 3 . A convenient representation of M 22 is in permutation matrices on the last 22 coordinates; it fixes a 2-2-3 triangle with vertices the origin and the type 2 points x = (−3, 1 ) and y = (−4,-4,0 ) '. The triangle's edge x - y = (1, 5, 1 )

406-473: The Mathieu group M 24 (as permutation matrices ). N ≈ 2 :M 24 . A standard representation , used throughout this article, of the binary Golay code arranges the 24 co-ordinates so that 6 consecutive blocks (tetrads) of 4 constitute a sextet . The matrices of Co 0 are orthogonal ; i. e., they leave the inner product invariant. The inverse is the transpose . Co 0 has no matrices of determinant −1. The Leech lattice can easily be defined as

435-424: The Z - module generated by the set Λ 2 of all vectors of type 2, consisting of and their images under N . Λ 2 under N falls into 3 orbits of sizes 1104, 97152, and 98304 . Then | Λ 2 | = 196,560 = 2 ⋅3 ⋅5⋅7⋅13 . Conway strongly suspected that Co 0 was transitive on Λ 2 , and indeed he found a new matrix, not monomial and not an integer matrix. Let η be

464-454: The 12 conjugacy classes of maximal subgroups of McL as follows: Traces of matrices in a standard 24-dimensional representation of McL are shown. The names of conjugacy classes are taken from the Atlas of Finite Group Representations. Cycle structures in the rank 3 permutation representation, degree 275, of McL are shown. Conway and Norton suggested in their 1979 paper that monstrous moonshine

493-722: The 26 sporadic groups and was discovered by Jack McLaughlin ( 1969 ) as an index 2 subgroup of a rank 3 permutation group acting on the McLaughlin graph with 275 = 1 + 112 + 162 vertices. It fixes a 2-2-3 triangle in the Leech lattice and thus is a subgroup of the Conway groups C o 0 {\displaystyle \mathrm {Co} _{0}} , C o 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {Co} _{2}} , and C o 3 {\displaystyle \mathrm {Co} _{3}} . Its Schur multiplier has order 3, and its outer automorphism group has order 2. The group 3.McL:2

522-494: The 4-by-4 matrix Now let ζ be a block sum of 6 matrices: odd numbers each of η and − η . ζ is a symmetric and orthogonal matrix, thus an involution . Some experimenting shows that it interchanges vectors between different orbits of N . To compute |Co 0 | it is best to consider Λ 4 , the set of vectors of type 4. Any type 4 vector is one of exactly 48 type 4 vectors congruent to each other modulo 2Λ, falling into 24 orthogonal pairs { v , – v }. A set of 48 such vectors

551-667: The Leech lattice is defined as 1/8 the sum of the products of respective co-ordinates of the two multiplicand vectors; it is an integer. The square norm of a vector is its inner product with itself, always an even integer. It is common to speak of the type of a Leech lattice vector: half the square norm. Subgroups are often named in reference to the types of relevant fixed points. This lattice has no vectors of type 1. Thomas Thompson ( 1983 ) relates how, in about 1964, John Leech investigated close packings of spheres in Euclidean spaces of large dimension. One of Leech's discoveries

580-535: The Leech lattice. Identifying R with C and Λ with the resulting automorphism group (i.e., the group of Leech lattice automorphisms preserving the complex structure ) when divided by the six-element group of complex scalar matrices, gives the Suzuki group Suz (order 448,345,497,600 ). This group was discovered by Michio Suzuki in 1968. A similar construction gives the Hall–Janko group J 2 (order 604,800 ) as

609-413: The alternating group A 9 . John Thompson pointed out it would be fruitful to investigate the normalizers of smaller subgroups of the form 2.A n ( Conway 1971 , p. 242). Several other maximal subgroups of Co 0 are found in this way. Moreover, two sporadic groups appear in the resulting chain. There is a subgroup 2.A 8 × S 4 , the only one of this chain not maximal in Co 0 . Next there

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638-412: The area of modern algebra known as group theory , the Conway groups are the three sporadic simple groups Co 1 , Co 2 and Co 3 along with the related finite group Co 0 introduced by ( Conway   1968 , 1969 ). The largest of the Conway groups, Co 0 , is the group of automorphisms of the Leech lattice Λ with respect to addition and inner product . It has order but it

667-400: The inner product v · w = 3 (and thus v - w is type 2). He shows their number is 552 = 2 ⋅3⋅23 and that this Co 3 is transitive on these w . |McL| = |Co3|/552 = 898,128,000. McL is the only sporadic group to admit irreducible representations of quaternionic type . It has 2 such representations, one of dimension 3520 and one of dimension 4752. Finkelstein (1973) found

696-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McLaughlin_group&oldid=932989144 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages McLaughlin group (mathematics) McL is one of

725-408: The number of frames, the latter being equal to the quotient | Λ 4 |/48 = 8,252,375 = 3 ⋅5 ⋅7⋅13 . That product is the order of any subgroup of Co 0 that properly contains N ; hence N is a maximal subgroup of Co 0 and contains 2-Sylow subgroups of Co 0 . N also is the subgroup in Co 0 of all matrices with integer components. Since Λ includes vectors of

754-461: The order of the group. Conway expected to spend months or years on the problem, but found results in just a few sessions. Witt (1998 , page 329) stated that he found the Leech lattice in 1940 and hinted that he calculated the order of its automorphism group Co 0 . Conway started his investigation of Co 0 with a subgroup he called N , a holomorph of the (extended) binary Golay code (as diagonal matrices with 1 or −1 as diagonal elements) by

783-620: The quotient of the group of quaternionic automorphisms of Λ by the group ±1 of scalars. The seven simple groups described above comprise what Robert Griess calls the second generation of the Happy Family , which consists of the 20 sporadic simple groups found within the Monster group . Several of the seven groups contain at least some of the five Mathieu groups , which comprise the first generation . Co 0 has 4 conjugacy classes of elements of order 3. In M 24 an element of shape 3 generates

812-500: The shape (±8, 0 ) , Co 0 consists of rational matrices whose denominators are all divisors of 8. The smallest non-trivial representation of Co 0 over any field is the 24-dimensional one coming from the Leech lattice, and this is faithful over fields of characteristic other than 2. Any involution in Co 0 can be shown to be conjugate to an element of the Golay code. Co 0 has 4 conjugacy classes of involutions. A permutation matrix of shape 2 can be shown to be conjugate to

841-464: Was a lattice packing in 24-space, based on what came to be called the Leech lattice Λ. He wondered whether his lattice's symmetry group contained an interesting simple group, but felt he needed the help of someone better acquainted with group theory. He had to do much asking around because the mathematicians were pre-occupied with agendas of their own. John Conway agreed to look at the problem. John G. Thompson said he would be interested if he were given

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