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Further solvable analogues of the Baer--Suzuki Theorem and generation of nonsolvable groups
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Proportions of elements with given 2-part order in finite classical groups of odd characteristic
No full textOn the uniform spread of almost simple linear groups
Full text linkLet G be a finite group, and let k be a nonnegative integer. We say that G has uniform spread k if there exists a fixed conjugacy class C in G with the property that for any k nontrivial elements x(1),...,x(k) in G there exists y is an element of C such that G = <x(i), y > for all i. Further, the exact uniform spread of G, denoted by u(G), is the largest k such that G has the uniform spread k property. By a theorem of Breuer, Guralnick, and Kantor, u(G) > 1 for every finite simple group G. Here we consider the uniform spread of almost simple linear groups. Our main theorem states that if G = <PSLn(q),g > is almost simple, then u(G) > 1 (unless G is isomorphic to S_6), and we determine precisely when u(G) tends to infinity as |G| tends to infinity.</p
Characterizations of the solvable radical
No full textWe prove that there exists a constant k with the property: if C is a conjugacy class of a finite group G such that every k elements of C generate a solvable subgroup, then C generates a solvable subgroup. In particular, using the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, we show that we can take k = 4. We also present proofs that do not use the Classification Theorem. The most direct proof gives a value of k = 10. By lengthening one of our arguments slightly, we obtain a value of k = 7
On the maximum orders of elements of finite almost simple groups and primitive permutation groups
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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