Towards Hurwitz generation of $\mathrm{G}_{\mathrm{sc}}(\mathrm{E}_6,q)$

N. S. Semenov

Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Problems in the theory of representations of algebras and groups. Part 10, Tome 305 (2003), pp. 228-237

Résumé

The paper is devoted to the problem of Hurwitz generation of the group $\mathrm{G}_{\mathrm{sc}}(\mathrm{E}_6,q)$. All possibilities for Hurwitz generators, except exactly one, are excluded.

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