The conjugacy class ranks of $M_{24}$

Abstract

$M_{24}$ is the largest Mathieu sporadic simple group of order $244 823 040 = 2^{10} {cdot} 3^3 {cdot} 5 {cdot} 7 {cdot} 11 {cdot} 23$ and contains all the other Mathieu sporadic simple groups as subgroups. The object in this paper is to study the ranks of $M_{24}$ with respect to the conjugacy classes of all its nonidentity elements.