Subgroups of the Monster in mmgroup

Abstract representation of the Monster group

The Monster can be defined as the automorphism group of a (conjecturally to be unique) extremal self-dual (or holomorphic) vertex operator algebra of central charge c=24. It is the largest of the 26 sporadic simple groups and was found by Bernd Fischer and Robert Griess and first constructed by Griess as automorphisms of the Griess algebra.

Martin Seysen's newly developed mmgroup package allows fast computations inside the Monster.

We list generators of subgroups of the Monster and some simple python scripts for accessing this information.

Gerald Höhn, Fall 2023.

The Monster itself

Standart generators of the Monster as in the ATLAS of Finite Group Representations - Version 3 and computed for mmgroup by Martin Seysen. Also available as file on github.

Algebraic conjugacy classes

If possible, representatives are in 21+24.Co1. The two classes of order 27 cannot be distinguished yet. Computed by Gerald Höhn.

An entry of the list li in the file classes.py contains:

The file find_class.py provides the following functions:

Maximal subgroups

Generators of maximal subgroups. If possible, we try to find standart generators as in the ATLAS of Finite Group Representations - Version 3

Sylow subgroups

Conjugacy classes of commuting pairs