Large dimensional classical groups and linear spaces

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Authors Nick Gill, A. Zalesski, A. R. Camina

Publication date 22 January 2009

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701258, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1225893950

zbMATH Keywords

block designlinear spacefinite classical groupline-transitive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

Abstract: Suppose that a group $G$ has socle $L$ a simple large-rank classical group. Suppose furthermore that $G$ acts transitively on the set of lines of a linear space $mathcalS$. We prove that, provided $L$ has dimension at least 25, then $G$ acts transitively on the set of flags of $mathcalS$ and hence the action is known. For particular families of classical groups our results hold for dimension smaller than 25. The group theoretic methods used to prove the result (described in Section 3) are robust and general and are likely to have wider application in the study of almost simple groups acting on finite linear spaces.

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