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Subgroups of Exceptional Groups

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Algebraic Groups and their Representations

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In this article we present some recent results concerning the subgroups of the simple algebraic groups of exceptional type, and of the corresponding finite groups of Lie type. There are six sections. The first contains some general observations, while in the second we focus on connected subgroups. The third section contains results on infinite closed subgroups, and in the last three sections we discuss finite subgroups.

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Liebeck, M.W. (1998). Subgroups of Exceptional Groups. In: Carter, R.W., Saxl, J. (eds) Algebraic Groups and their Representations. NATO ASI Series, vol 517. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5308-9_15

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