Corrigenda on second degree cohomology of symmetric and alternating groups

Prime power degree representations of the symmetric and alternating groups

In 1998, the second author raised the problem of classifying the irreducible characters of Sn of prime power degree. Zalesskii proposed the analogous problem for quasi-simple groups, and he has, in joint work with Malle, made substantial progress on this latter problem. With the exception of the alternating groups and their double covers, their work provides a complete solution. In this article...

On Alternating and Symmetric Groups as Galois Groups

Fix an integer n = 3. We show that the alternating group An appears as Galois group over any Hilbertian field of characteristic different from 2. In characteristic 2, we prove the same when n is odd. We show that any quadratic extension of Hilbertian fields of characteristic different from 2 can be embedded in an Sn–extension (i.e. a Galois extension with the symmetric group Sn as Galois group)...

Short presentations for alternating and symmetric groups

We derive new families of presentations (by generators and relations) for the alternating and symmetric groups of finite degree n. These include presentations of length that are linear in log n, and 2-generator presentations with a bounded number of relations independent of n.

Regular polytopes with symmetric and alternating groups

conjectures on the normal covering number of finite symmetric and alternating groups

let $gamma(s_n)$ be the minimum number of proper subgroups‎ ‎$h_i, i=1‎, ‎dots‎, ‎l $ of the symmetric group $s_n$ such that each element in $s_n$‎ ‎lies in some conjugate of one of the $h_i.$ in this paper we‎ ‎conjecture that $$gamma(s_n)=frac{n}{2}left(1-frac{1}{p_1}right)‎ ‎left(1-frac{1}{p_2}right)+2,$$ where $p_1,p_2$ are the two smallest primes‎ ‎in the factorization of $ninmathbb{n}$ an...