Asymptotics of generating the symmetric and alternating groups

Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Volumn 12, Issue 1 R, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Dixon, John D ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844553483     PISSN: 10778926     EISSN: 10778926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.37236/1953     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. L. Babai, The probability of generating the symmetric group, J. Combin. Theory (Ser. A) 52 (1989) 148{153.
2. E.A. Bender, An asymptotic expansion for some coefficients of some formal power series, J. London Math. Soc. 9 (1975) 451{458.
3. J. Bovey and A. Williamson, The probability of generating the symmetric group, Bull. London Math. Soc. 10 (1978) 91{96.
4. L. Comtet, "Advanced Combinatorics", Reidel, 1974.
5. J.D. Dixon, The probability of generating the symmetric group, Math. Z. 110 (1969) 199{205.
6. M. Hall, Jr., Subgroups of nite index in free groups, Canad. J. Math. 1 (1949) 187{190.
7. A.M. Odlyzko, Asymptotic enumeration methods, in \Handbook of Combinatorics (Vol. II)" (eds.: R.L. Graham, M. Grötschel and L. Lovasz), M.I.T. Press and North-Holland, 1995 (pp. 1063{1229).
8. R.P. Stanley, "Enumerative Combinatorics (Vol. 1)", Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, 1986 (reprinted Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997).