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A137863 Orders of simple groups which are non-cyclic and non-alternating.

%I A137863 #58 May 24 2020 08:50:58
%S A137863 168,504,660,1092,2448,3420,4080,5616,6048,6072,7800,7920,9828,12180,
%T A137863 14880,20160,25308,25920,29120,32736,34440,39732,51888,58800,62400,
%U A137863 74412,95040,102660,113460,126000,150348,175560,178920,194472,246480,262080
%N A137863 Orders of simple groups which are non-cyclic and non-alternating.
%C A137863 From _Bernard Schott_, Apr 26 2020: (Start)
%C A137863 About a(16) = 20160; 20160 = 8!/2 is the order of the alternating simple group A_8 that is isomorphic to the Lie group PSL_4(2), but, 20160 is also the order of the Lie group PSL_3(4) that is not isomorphic to A_8.
%C A137863 Indeed, 20160 is the smallest order for which there exist two nonisomorphic simple groups and it is the order of this group PSL_3(4) that was missing in the data. The first proof that there exist two nonisomorphic simple groups of this order was given by the American mathematician Ida May Schottenfels (1900) [see the link]. (End)
%D A137863 L. E. Dickson, Linear groups, with an exposition of the Galois field theory (Teubner, 1901), p. 309.
%H A137863 David Madore, <a href="http://www.madore.org/~david/math/simplegroups.html#table1">Orders of non abelian simple groups</a>
%H A137863 Ida May Schottenfels, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1967281">Two non isomorphic simple groups of the same order 20160</a>, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 1, No. 1/4 (1900), pp. 147-152.
%e A137863 From _Bernard Schott_, Apr 27 2020: (Start)
%e A137863 Two particular examples:
%e A137863 a(1) = 168 is the order of the smallest non-cyclic and non-alternating simple group, this Lie group is the projective special linear group PSL_2(7) that is isomorphic to the general linear group GL_3(2).
%e A137863 a(12) = 7920 is the order of the smallest sporadic group (A001228), the Mathieu group M_11. (End)
%Y A137863 Cf. A001034, A001710, A005180, A109379.
%Y A137863 Subsequence: A001228 (sporadic groups).
%K A137863 nonn
%O A137863 1,1
%A A137863 _Artur Jasinski_, Feb 16 2008
%E A137863 More terms from _R. J. Mathar_, Apr 23 2009
%E A137863 a(16) = 20160 inserted by _Bernard Schott_, Apr 26 2020
%E A137863 Incorrect formula and programs removed by _R. J. Mathar_, Apr 27 2020
%E A137863 Terms checked by _Bernard Schott_, Apr 26 2020