
A new method for computing the conjugacy classes of subgroups of a finite permutation group \(G\) is described. The method requires a preliminary calculation and storage of appropriate data of all trivial-Fitting groups (i.e. groups with no nontrivial solvable normal subgroups) of order less than some fixed \(n\); at the time of writing of the paper, this was done for \(n=216000\), producing a database of \(154\) groups. The algorithm consists of two stages. At first, one has to find an appropriate ascending series of normal subgroups of \(G\), \(1=N_0\triangleleft N_1\triangleleft\cdots\triangleleft N_r=L\triangleleft G\), such that \(N_i/N_{i-1}\) is elementary Abelian (for \(i=1,\dots,r\)) and \(G/L\) is trivial-Fitting. Then, \(G/L\) must be explicitly identified with one of the trivial-Fitting groups in the database, obtaining representatives of all the conjugacy classes of subgroups of \(G/L\). The second stage is the successive lifting of such class representatives through the layers, finding class representatives of subgroups of \(G/N_{i-1}\) from those of \(G/N_i\). The paper ends with several examples and performance results of the algorithm as implemented in the algebra system MAGMA.
Algebra and Number Theory, subgroups of permutation groups, Symbolic computation and algebraic computation, Series and lattices of subgroups, finite permutation groups, algorithms, Computational Mathematics, Computational methods (permutation groups), trivial Fitting groups, Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory, ascending series of normal subgroups, conjugacy classes of subgroups, Conjugacy classes for groups
Algebra and Number Theory, subgroups of permutation groups, Symbolic computation and algebraic computation, Series and lattices of subgroups, finite permutation groups, algorithms, Computational Mathematics, Computational methods (permutation groups), trivial Fitting groups, Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory, ascending series of normal subgroups, conjugacy classes of subgroups, Conjugacy classes for groups
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