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This paper gives a verification that the corrected Sims presentation is indeed a presentation of Lyons simple group. We prove that Lyons original characterization of his new simple group works inside a permutation group of degree 8 835 156.
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Gollan, H.W., Havas, G. (1999). On Sims’ Presentation for Lyons’ Simple Group. In: Dräxler, P., Ringel, C.M., Michler, G.O. (eds) Computational Methods for Representations of Groups and Algebras. Progress in Mathematics, vol 173. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8716-8_13
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