On the composition length of finite primitive linear groups

DOI10.1007/BF02638376MaRDI QIDQ1865715zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Languasco, F. Menegazzo, Marta Morigi

Publication date 27 March 2003

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02638376

zbMATH Keywords

composition lengthsfinite fieldsfinite quasi-primitive linear groupsnumber fieldsnumbers of prime factors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Review text

An irreducible subgroup \(G\) of \(\text{GL}_K(V)\) is called quasi-primitive if every normal subgroup of \(G\) is homogeneous on \(V\). Let \(K\) be a finite field or a number field, \(V\) a \(K\)-vector space, and \(G\) a finite quasi-primitive subgroup of \(\text{GL}_K(V)\). The authors bound the composition length of \(G\) in terms of the dimension of \(V\) over \(K\) and the degree of \(K\) over its prime subfield. As a by-product, the authors prove a result of number theory which bounds the number of prime factors (counting multiplicities) of \(q^n-1\) (\(q,n\geq 1\) integers), improving a result of \textit{A. Turull} and \textit{A. Zame} [Arch. Math. 55, No. 4, 333-341 (1990; Zbl 0691.10035)].

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