Cycle types in infinite permutation groups

DOI10.1006/JABR.1995.1184MaRDI QIDQ1895618zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dugald Macpherson, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date 21 April 1996

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1995.1184

zbMATH Keywords

cycle decompositionhighly transitive groupsinfinite primitive Jordan groupsinfinite primitive permutation groupstransitive permutation group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07) Primitive groups (20B15) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22)

Review text

The main result of the paper is Theorem 1.1: Let \(G\) be a transitive permutation group of an infinite set \(\Omega\) and let \(k\) be a positive integer or \(k = \aleph_0\). Suppose that \(G\) contains an element \(g\) whose cycle decomposition consists of a single infinite cycle, a finite positive number of finite cycles of length at least 2 and at least \(k\) fixed points. (i) If \(k\) is finite, then \(G\) is \((k+1)\)-transitive on \(\Omega\). (ii) If \(k\) is infinite and \((G, \Omega)\) is primitive, then \(G\) is highly transitive. The proof of (ii) is quite hard and makes use of the recent classification of infinite primitive Jordan groups.

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• Jordan permutation groups and limits of \(D\)-relations
• Cycle-types in the automorphism groups of countable homogeneous graphs
• Counting Cycles in Permutations by Group Characters, With an Application to a Topological Problem
• Highly Transitive Jordan Representations of Free Products
• Set-homogeneous directed graphs
• Infinite Bounded Permutation Groups
• Highly transitive subgroups of the symmetric group on the natural numbers
• Triple transitivity and non‐free actions in dimension one

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