John Bray's Publications

Theses

  1. MPhil (Sc, Qual): Symmetric Presentations of Finite Groups. (June 1995.)
  2. PhD: Symmetric Presentations of Sporadic Groups and Related Topics. (September 1997.)

Books

This is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future.

Published Papers

  1. R.T.Curtis, A.M.A.Hammas and J.N.Bray. A systematic approach to symmetric presentations. I: Involutory generators. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 119 (1996), no. 1, 23-34. [AMS Classification: 20F05.]
  2. J.N.Bray and R.T.Curtis. A systematic approach to symmetric presentations. II: Generators of order 3. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 128 (2000), no. 1, 1-20. [AMS Classification: 20F05.]
  3. J.N.Bray, C.W.Parker and P.J.Rowley. Cayley type graphs and cubic graphs of large girth. Discrete Math. 214 (2000), no. 1-3, 113-121. [AMS Classification: 05C25.]
  4. J.N.Bray. An improved method for generating the centraliser of an involution. Arch. Math. (Basel) 74 (2000), no. 4, 241-245. [AMS Classification: 20F05 (20D06).]
  5. J.N.Bray, I.A.I.Suleiman, P.G.Walsh and R.A.Wilson. Generating maximal subgroups of sporadic simple groups. Comm. Algebra 29 (2001), no. 3, 1325-1337. [AMS Classification: 20D08.]
  6. J.N.Bray, R.T.Curtis, C.W.Parker and C.B.Wiedorn. Symmetric presentations of the Fischer groups I: The classical groups Sp6(2), Sp8(2), and 3.O7(3). J. Algebra 265 (2003), no. 1, 171-199. [AMS Classification 20D06 (20F05).]
  7. J.N.Bray and R.T.Curtis. Monomial modular representations and symmetric generation of the Harada-Norton group. J. Algebra 268 (2003), no. 2, 723-743. [AMS Classification 20C34 (20D08).]
  8. J.N.Bray and R.T.Curtis. Double coset enumeration of symmetrically generated groups. J. Group Theory 7 (2004), no. 2, 167-185. [AMS Classification 20F05 (20D60).]

Papers Submitted, and Preprints

  1. J.N.Bray, R.T.Curtis, C.W.Parker and C.B.Wiedorn. Symmetric presentations of the Fischer groups II: The sporadic groups. Submitted to Geom. Dedicata.
  2. J.N.Bray and C.W.Parker. Periodic groups with involution centralisers which are dihedral of order 8. Preprint 2003/01 at the University of Birmingham.
  3. J.N.Bray, J.S.Wilson and R.A.Wilson. A characterization of finite soluble groups by laws in two variables. To appear Bull. London Math. Soc. Preprint 2003/21 at the University of Birmingham.
  4. J.N.Bray and R.A.Wilson. On the orders of automorphism groups of finite groups. To appear Bull. London Math. Soc. Preprint 2003/22 at the University of Birmingham.
  5. J.N.Bray and R.A.Wilson. On the orders of automorphism groups of finite groups. II. Submitted to Bulletin/Journal/Proceedings of the LMS. Preprint 2004/14 at the University of Birmingham.

Web Atlases

  1. R.A.Wilson, R.A.Parker, J.N.Bray, et al. A WWW­Atlas of Finite Group Representations. (The link is to version 2.)
  2. J.N.Bray. An Atlas of [Symmetric] Group Presentations.

GAP Share Package

  1. R.A.Wilson, R.A.Parker, J.N.Bray and T.Breuer. AtlasRep GAP4 share package. http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/atlasrep.html.

Work in Preparation, and Other Miscellaneous

  1. My publications via MathSciNet (Bielefeld) - that is if it works.

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Last updated 11th December, 2003
Dr John N. Bray