Complete mappings in some linear and projective groups

DOI10.1007/BF01207458MaRDI QIDQ689646zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Francesca Dalla Volta, Norberto Gavioli

Publication date 15 November 1993

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01207458

2-Sylow subgroups automorphism groups bijective mapping complete mapping finite group finite linear groups finite projective groups Mathieu groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares (05B15) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group; a bijective mapping \(\varphi: G\to G\) is complete if also the mapping \(x\mapsto x\varphi(x)\) is bijective. \textit{M. Hall} and \textit{L. J. Paige} [Pac. J. Math. 5, 541-549 (1955; Zbl 0066.27703)] proved that a necessary condition for a finite group to have a complete mapping is that its 2-Sylow subgroups be non-cyclic or trivial. They conjectured such that a condition is also sufficient and proved that this is true for solvable, symmetric and alternating groups. In our paper it is proved that, in even characteristic, the groups \(\text{SL}(n,q)\), \(\text{PSL}(n,q)\), \(\text{GL}(n,q)\) and \(\text{PGL}(n,q)\), admit a complete mapping, with the exception of \(\text{SL}(2,2)\). Moreover, the same is proved for the Mathieu groups, their automorphism groups and \(\text{PSL}(2,q)\), \(q\equiv 3\bmod 4\).

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