Friday, October 18, 2013

[oxofrygy] Finite simple groups of the 24-cell

SOME REMARKS ON THE ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURE OF THE FINITE COXETER GROUP F4, by MUHAMMAD A. ALBAR and NORAH AL-SALEH

The Coxeter group F4 (order 1152) is the split extension of the Coxeter group D4 by S3 (order 3! = 6). D4 is the split extension of Z23 (order 23 = 8) by S4 (order 4! = 24).

Thus 1152 = 6 * 8 * 24.

(Notation made searching for this complicated. There exist finite simple groups called F4(q), and 2F4(22n+1). "The 24 vertices of the 24-cell represent the root vectors of the simple Lie group D4." and there also exist finite simple groups named Dn(q), 2Dn(q2), 3D4(q3).)

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