Griess, Robert L. jun. The friendly giant. (English) Zbl 0498.20013 Invent. Math. 69, 1-102 (1982). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 16 ReviewsCited in 117 Documents MSC: 20D05 Finite simple groups and their classification 20D08 Simple groups: sporadic groups Keywords:finite simple group; monster; centralizer of involution; Sylow 2- subgroup; Norton-algebra × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF Full Text: DOI EuDML Link ATLAS of Finite Group Representations: Monster group M References: [1] Alperin, J., Gorenstein, D.: A vanishing theorem for cohomology. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.32, 87-88 (1972) · Zbl 0249.18026 · doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0291293-5 [2] Artin, E.: Geometric Algebra. New York:Interscience 1957 · Zbl 0077.02101 [3] Aschbacher, M.: private communication [4] Aschbacher, M., Seitz, G.: On groups with a standard component of known type. Osaka J. 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