On primitive solvable permutation groups with commutative stabilizer of a point (Q1335947)

It is shown that any primitive soluble permutation group with abelian point stabiliser is isomorphic to a subgroup of the affine group of some field, and, in addition, if the point stabiliser is finitely generated, then the permutation group is finite. Also, a formula is given for the number of conjugacy classes (in the symmetric group \(S_{p^ n}\), \(p\) prime) of primitive soluble subgroups of \(S_{p^ n}\) with abelian point stabiliser.