Homogeneity in infinite permutation groups

DOI10.1007/BF01848649MaRDI QIDQ1061217zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors H. D. Macpherson

Publication date 1986

Published in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01848649

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupfinite primitive permutation groupsk-homogeneousk-transitive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

If G is a permutation group on a set X, then G is said to be k- homogeneous (respectively k-transitive) if it is transitive on the set of unordered (respectively ordered) k-subsets of X. It is shown that if X is infinite, \(k\geq 5\), and G is (k-1)-transitive but not k-transitive, then the following hold: (i) G is not \((k+r)\)-homogeneous for any \(r\geq 3\); (ii) if G is \((k+2)\)-homogeneous, then the group induced by G on any k- subset of X is the alternating group \(A_ k\). This improves an earlier bound due to Hodges. The proof uses well-known upper bounds on the orders of finite primitive permutation groups which are derived from the classification of the finite simple groups.

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