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We show that each sporadic simple group G can be uniquely determined by the set of the orders of the maximal abelian subgroups of G.
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The authors were supported by the NSFC (No. 10771172), the SRF of the CUIT (No. CRF200530), and the Research Grant of Shanghai University.
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Shanghai; Chongqing. Translated from Sibirskiĭ Matematicheskiĭ Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 1430–1440, November–December, 2008.
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Han, Z., Chen, G. & Guo, X. A characterization theorem for sporadic simple groups. Sib Math J 49, 1138–1146 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11202-008-0111-z
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