The proportion of fixed-point-free elements of a transitive permutation group

DOI10.1080/00927879308824728zbMath0783.20002OpenAlexW2115090518MaRDI QIDQ3135712

Paul J. Gies, Judy Leavitt, Walter Dabrowski, David T. Ose, Nigel Boston, David A. Jackson, Tuval Foguel

Publication date: 10 October 1993

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1187&context=mathfacpub

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionswreath productsnilpotent groupstransitive permutation groupfixed-point-free elementssharply 2- transitive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Primitive groups (20B15) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20)

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Uses Software

• Cayley

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• On the degrees of primitive permutation groups
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