Infinite sharply multiply transitive groups.

DOI10.1365/S13291-016-0135-4MaRDI QIDQ295656zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katrin Tent

Publication date 13 June 2016

Published in Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02112

zbMATH Keywords

free productsinfinite permutation groupsnearfieldssharply transitive groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22)

Abstract: The finite sharply $2$-transitive groups were classified by Zassenhaus in the 1930's. They essentially all look like the group of affine linear transformations $xmapstoax+b$ for some field (or at least near-field) $K$. However, the question remained open whether the same is true for infinite sharply $2$-transitive groups. There has been extensive work on the structures associated to such groups indicating that Zassenhaus' results might extend might extend to the infinite setting. For many specific classes of groups, like Lie groups, linear groups, or groups definable in o-minimal it was indeed proved that all examples inside the given class arise in this way as affine groups. However, it recently turned out that the reason for the lack of a general proof was the fact that there are plenty of sharply $2$-transitive groups which do not arise from fields or near-fields! In fact, it is not too hard to construct concrete examples (see below). In this note, we survey general sharply $n$-transitive groups and describe how to construct examples not arising from fields.

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