In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Fischer group Fi<sub>22</sub> is a sporadic simple group of order
Fi<sub>22</sub> is one of the 26 sporadic groups and is the smallest of the three Fischer groups. It was introduced by while investigating 3-transposition groups.
The outer automorphism group has order 2, and the Schur multiplier has order 6.
The Fischer group Fi<sub>22</sub> has a rank 3 action on a graph of 3510 vertices corresponding to its 3-transpositions, with point stabilizer the double cover of the group PSU<sub>6</sub>(2). It also has two rank 3 actions on 14080 points, exchanged by an outer automorphism.
Fi<sub>22</sub> has an irreducible real representation of dimension 78. Reducing an integral form of this mod 3 gives a representation of Fi<sub>22</sub> over the field with 3 elements, whose quotient by the 1-dimensional space of fixed vectors is a 77-dimensional irreducible representation.
The perfect triple cover of Fi<sub>22</sub> has an irreducible representation of dimension 27 over the field with 4 elements. This arises from the fact that Fi<sub>22</sub> is a subgroup of <sup>2</sup>E<sub>6</sub>(2<sup>2</sup>). All the ordinary and modular character tables of Fi<sub>22</sub> have been computed. found the 5-modular character table, and found the 2- and 3-modular character tables.
The automorphism group of Fi<sub>22</sub> centralizes an element of order 3 in the baby monster group.
Conway and Norton suggested in their 1979 paper that monstrous moonshine is not limited to the monster, but that similar phenomena may be found for other groups. Larissa Queen and others subsequently found that one can construct the expansions of many Hauptmoduln from simple combinations of dimensions of sporadic groups. For Fi<sub>22</sub>, the McKay-Thompson series is where one can set a(0) = 10 (),
and ÷(ÃÂ) is the Dedekind eta function.