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Cyclic quotients of transitive groups (English)
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4 September 2001
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In this note two interesting theorems about finite permutation groups and an application to the Galois theory of function fields resp. algebraic curves are proved. Theorem 1. If \(A\) is a transitive subgroup of the symmetric group \(S_n\) on \(n\) letters and \(G\) is a normal subgroup of \(A\) such that \(A/G\) is cyclic, then \(|A/G|\leq n\) and \(|A/G|<n\) if \(G\) is transitive. Theorem 3. If \(A\) is a finite primitive permutation group then a point stabilizer in \(A\) has a faithful orbit. The formulation of the mentioned application is more complicated (see Theorem 2 and sections 5 and 6 of the paper). The proofs are based on using a new group invariant \(\mu(H)\) related to central chief factors in normal series of the group \(H\). The classification of finite simple groups is used for obtaining the full results. However, some partial results are proved without invoking the classification.
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finite permutation groups
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transitive permutation groups
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normal subgroups
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cyclic factor groups
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cyclic quotients
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primitive groups
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point stabilizers
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suborbits
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Galois theory
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coverings of curves
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procyclic fields
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extensions of constants
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