J Austral Math Soc Ser A 57 pp35--48, 1994.

Sporadic Groups Geometries and the Action on Involutions

Peter Rowley

Abstract

This paper is an expository introduction to recent and current work on geometries associated with minimal parabolic subgroups and maximal 2-local subgroups of finite sporadic simple groups, based on lectures given by the author at the Canberra Group Actions Workshop, held at the Australian National University in June 1993.

1991 AMS Subject Classification: 51E24

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Peter Rowley

Mathematics Department, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK.