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In this chapter we prove Cherlin’s conjecture for exceptional groups of Lie type. Our main result shows that, if G is an almost simple primitive group having socle an exceptional group of Lie type, then G is not binary. The proof uses some of the results in the previous chapters together with a detailed analysis of the maximal subgroups of G.
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Gill, N., Liebeck, M.W., Spiga, P. (2022). Exceptional Groups. In: Cherlin’s Conjecture for Finite Primitive Binary Permutation Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95956-2_3
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