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In this paper we describe, with some proofs, properties of Fi24, the largest of Fischer’s sporadic 3-transposition groups, and related groups.
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Norton, S.P. (1988). On the group Fi24 . In: Aschbacher, M., Cohen, A.M., Kantor, W.M. (eds) Geometries and Groups. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4017-8_17
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