Martin W. Liebeck
Research Papers


Published Papers

 

Electronic Preprints

Here’s a selection of papers published since 2003.

Clicking on the title of a paper will take you to a page from which you can download the paper in at least one format.

 

               The classification of almost simple 3/2-transitive groups

                (with J. Bamberg, M. Giudici, C. Praeger and J. Saxl), Transactions Amer. Math. Soc., to appear

 

               Product decompositions in finite simple groups

               (with N. Nikolov, A. Shalev), Bulletin London Math. Soc., to appear

 

               The density of representation degrees

               (with A. Shalev and D. Segal), J. European Math. Soc., to appear

 

               Commutators in finite quasisimple groups

               (with E. O'Brien, A. Shalev, P. Tiep), Bulletin London Math. Soc., to appear

 

               Fixed points of elements of linear groups

               (with A. Shalev), Bulletin London Math. Soc., to appear

 

               Products of squares in finite simple groups

               (with E. O'Brien, A. Shalev, P. Tiep), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear

 

               A rigid triple of conjugacy classes in G_2

               (with A. Litterick and C. Marion), J. Group Theory 14 (2011), 31--36              

 

              Groups of Lie type as products of SL_2 subgroups

 

              (with N. Nikolov, A. Shalev), J. Algebra 326 (2011), 201-207

 

               A conjecture on product decompositions in simple groups

              (with N. Nikolov and A. Shalev), Groups, Geometry and Dynamics 4 (2010), 799-–812

 

         

              The Ore Conjecture

 

              (with E. O'Brien, A. Shalev, P. Tiep), J. European Math. Soc. 12 (2010), 939 - 1008

 

 

              On regular subgroups of primitive permutation groups

 

              (with C. Praeger and J. Saxl),  Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. 203 (2010), No. 952, pp. 1-88

 

 

              Primitive permutation groups of bounded orbital diameter

 

              (with H.D. Macpherson and K. Tent), Proc. London Math. Soc. 100 (2010), 216-248

 

           

             Base sizes for simple groups and a conjecture of Cameron

 

            (with T. Burness and A. Shalev), Proc. London Math. Soc. 98 (2009), 116-162

 

           

             Short Two-Variable Identities for Finite Groups

 

             (with D. Cargo. W. de Launey and R. Stafford), J. Group Theory 11 (2008), 675-690

 

 

             The sparsity of dimensions of irreducible representations of finite simple groups

 

             (with A. Shalev), Bull. London Math. Soc. 39 (2007), 467-472

 

 

             Finding the characteristic of a group of Lie type

 

             (with E. O'Brien), J. London Math. Soc. 75 (2007), 741-754

 

 

             On a conjecture of G.E. Wall

 

             (with A. Shalev), J. Algebra 317 (2007), 184-197

 

     Fuchsian groups, finite simple groups and representation varieties

     (with Aner Shalev), Inventiones Math. 159 (2005), 317-367

     On conjugacy classes of maximal subgroups of finite simple groups, and a related zeta function

(with Ben Martin and Aner Shalev), Duke Math. J. 128 (2005), 541-557

     Character degrees and random walks in finite groups of Lie type

(with Aner Shalev), Proc. London Math. Soc. 90 (2005), 61-86

     Maximal subgroups of large rank in exceptional groups of Lie type

(with Gary Seitz), J. London Math. Soc. 71 (2005), 345-361

     Irreducible subgroups of algebraic groups

(with Donna Testerman), Quarterly J. Math 55 (2004), 47-55

     Subgroups of exceptional algebraic groups which are irreducible on an adjoint or minimal module

(with Gary Seitz), J. Group Theory 7 (2004), no. 3, 347-372

     Fuchsian groups, coverings of Riemann surfaces, subgroup growth, random quotients and random walks

(with Aner Shalev), J. Algebra 276 (2004), 552-601.

     The maximal subgroups of positive dimension in exceptional algebraic groups

(with Gary Seitz), Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. 169 (2004), no. 802, vi+227 pp.

     The number of homomorphisms from a finite group to a general linear group

(with Aner Shalev), Communications in Algebra 32 (2004), 657-661

     Residual properties of the modular group and other free products

(with Aner Shalev), J. Algebra 268 (2003), 264-285

     Residual properties of free products of finite groups

(with Aner Shalev), J. Algebra 268 (2003), 286-289

     Variations on a theme of Steinberg

(with Gary Seitz), J. Algebra 260 (2003), 261-297

     A survey of maximal subgroups of exceptional groups of Lie type

(with Gary Seitz), in Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry: Durham, 2001, World Scientific, 2003

     Bases of primitive permutation groups

(with Aner Shalev), in Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry: Durham, 2001, World Scientific, 2003