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Generating Sequences of PSL(2,p)

Benjamin Nachman
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Julius Whiston and Jan Saxl showed that the size of an irredundant generating set of the group G=PSL(2,p) is at most four and computed the size m(G) of a maximal set for many primes. We will extend this result to a larger class of primes, with a surprising result that when p\not\equiv\pm 1\mod 10, m(G)=3 except for the special case p=7. In addition, we will determine which orders of elements in irredundant generating sets of PSL(2,p) with lengths less than or equal to four are possible in most cases. We also give some remarks about the behavior of PSL(2,p) with respect to the replacement property for groups.

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Benjamin Nachman. 2014-08-04. Generating Sequences of PSL(2,p). https://doi.org/10.1515/jgt-2014-0013

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