The non-existence of sharply 2-transitive sets of permutations in \(\mathrm {Sp}(2d,2)\) of degree \(2^{2d-1}\pm 2^{d-1}\) (Q515737)

The author proves that for \(d\geq 4\) the symplectic groups Sp\((2d,2)\) in their doubly transitive actions of degrees \(2^{2d-1} \pm 2^{d-1}\) have no sharply 2-transitive subsets. In fact, the point stabilizers O\({}^\pm (2d, 2)\) of these actions contain no sharply transitive subsets. This is proved by combinatorial arguments, using contradiction subsets in the sense of \textit{P. Müller} and \textit{G. P. Nagy} [Adv. Math. Commun. 5, No. 2, 303--308 (2011; Zbl 1229.20002)], thus simplifying the proof of Theorem 1.5 in [the reviewer and \textit{P. Müller}, Beitr. Algebra Geom. 50, No. 1, 143--154 (2009; Zbl 1165.20002)].