and Kloosterman sheaves. We gave there easy to apply criteria on these sheaves that their
monodromy groups satisfy the group-theoretic condition (S+), and showed that many of the
finite almost quasisimple groups occur as monodromy groups of such sheaves. Here, we
show that precisely 12 of the 26 sporadic simple groups occur in this way (and explain why
the others cannot occur this way). We also treat some small rank finite groups of Lie type, as …