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In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Mathieu groupM12 is a sporadic simple group of order
M12 is one of the 26 sporadic groups and was introduced by Mathieu ( 1861 , 1873 ). It is a sharply 5-transitive permutation group on 12 objects. Burgoyne & Fong (1968) showed that the Schur multiplier of M12 has order 2 (correcting a mistake in ( Burgoyne & Fong 1966 ) where they incorrectly claimed it has order 1).
The double cover had been implicitly found earlier by Coxeter (1958), who showed that M12 is a subgroup of the projective linear group of dimension 6 over the finite field with 3 elements.
The outer automorphism group has order 2, and the full automorphism group M12.2 is contained in M24 as the stabilizer of a pair of complementary dodecads of 24 points, with outer automorphisms of M12 swapping the two dodecads.
Frobenius (1904) calculated the complex character table of M12.
M12 has a strictly 5-transitive permutation representation on 12 points, whose point stabilizer is the Mathieu group M11. Identifying the 12 points with the projective line over the field of 11 elements, M12 is generated by the permutations of PSL2(11) together with the permutation (2,10)(3,4)(5,9)(6,7). This permutation representation preserves a Steiner system S(5,6,12) of 132 special hexads, such that each pentad is contained in exactly 1 special hexad, and the hexads are the supports of the weight 6 codewords of the extended ternary Golay code. In fact M12 has two inequivalent actions on 12 points, exchanged by an outer automorphism; these are analogous to the two inequivalent actions of the symmetric group S6 on 6 points.
The double cover 2.M12 is the automorphism group of the extended ternary Golay code, a dimension 6 length 12 code over the field of order 3 of minimum weight 6. In particular the double cover has an irreducible 6-dimensional representation over the field of 3 elements.
The double cover 2.M12 is the automorphism group of any 12×12 Hadamard matrix.
M12 centralizes an element of order 11 in the monster group, as a result of which it acts naturally on a vertex algebra over the field with 11 elements, given as the Tate cohomology of the monster vertex algebra.
There are 11 conjugacy classes of maximal subgroups of M12, 6 occurring in automorphic pairs, as follows:
The cycle shape of an element and its conjugate under an outer automorphism are related in the following way: the union of the two cycle shapes is balanced, in other words invariant under changing each n-cycle to an N/n cycle for some integer N.
| Order | Number | Centralizer | Cycles | Fusion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 95040 | 112 | |
| 2 | 396 | 240 | 26 | |
| 2 | 495 | 192 | 1424 | |
| 3 | 1760 | 54 | 1333 | |
| 3 | 2640 | 36 | 34 | |
| 4 | 2970 | 32 | 2242 | Fused under an outer automorphism |
| 4 | 2970 | 32 | 1442 | |
| 5 | 9504 | 10 | 1252 | |
| 6 | 7920 | 12 | 62 | |
| 6 | 15840 | 6 | 1 2 3 6 | |
| 8 | 11880 | 8 | 122 8 | Fused under an outer automorphism |
| 8 | 11880 | 8 | 4 8 | |
| 10 | 9504 | 10 | 2 10 | |
| 11 | 8640 | 11 | 1 11 | Fused under an outer automorphism |
| 11 | 8640 | 11 | 1 11 |
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