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Cayley Graphs and Thompson's Group

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Alternating <strong>Group</strong>s<br />

The alternating groups are key examples of finite simple groups.<br />

One of this weekend’s speakers, Martin Kassabov, has created<br />

a family of exp<strong>and</strong>er graphs using <strong>Cayley</strong> graphs of Alternating<br />

groups. Below is the <strong>Cayley</strong> graph of A 4 using (123) <strong>and</strong><br />

(12)(34) as generators. (The picture is stolen from Wolfram’s<br />

Mathworld.)<br />

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