@article{uoadl:3048605,
    volume = "185",
    number = "1",
    pages = "258-265",
    journal = "Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics",
    issn = "0925-9899",
    BIBTEX_ENTRY = "article",
    year = "1996",
    author = "Soules, PC and Woldar, AJ",
    abstract = "In Heineken and Liebeck [Arch. Math. 25 (1974), 8-16] it is proved
that for every finite group K and odd prime p, there exists a p-group G
of nilpotence class 2 and exponent p(2) on which K acts as the full
group of noncentral automorphisms. The authors investigate this problem
under the additional requirement that G/Z(G) be representation space for
the p-modular regular representation of K. In particular, they prove
that every sporadic simple group K can be so represented for any odd
prime p. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.",
    title = "Representing the sporadic groups as noncentral automorphisms of p-groups",
    doi = "10.1006/JABR.1996.0324"
}