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sporadic groups

sporadic groups is the plural of sporadic group.

Meaning of sporadic group

Noun

sporadic group (plural sporadic groups)

  1. Any one of the 26 exceptional finite simple groups, which do not belong to any of the general, infinite categories specified by the classification theorem for finite simple groups.
    • By the classification of finite simple groups in 1981 it is now known that every finite simple group is either cyclic of prime order, or an alternating group of degree 5 or bigger, or a simple group of Lie type as above, or one of 26 sporadic groups.1998, Meinolf Geck, “Finite Groups of Lie Type”, in Roger William Carter, Meinolf Geck, editors, Representations of Reductive Groups, Cambridge University Press, page 63

Questions about sporadic groups

What is sporadic groups the plural of?
Sporadic groups is the plural of sporadic group.

Words near sporadic groups in the dictionary

  1. sporades
  2. sporadial
  3. sporadic
  4. sporadic E
  5. sporadic group
  6. sporadic groups
  7. sporadical
  8. sporadically
  9. sporadicalness
  10. sporadicity
  11. sporadick

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