On the involution fixity of simple groups

DOI10.1017/S0013091521000237MaRDI QIDQ4999898zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Timothy C. Burness, Elisa Covato

Publication date 5 July 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01354

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupinvolution fixityprimitive groupssimple groupssporadic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite permutation group of degree $n$ and let $mifix(G)$ be the involution fixity of $G$, which is the maximum number of fixed points of an involution. In this paper we study the involution fixity of almost simple primitive groups whose socle $T$ is an alternating or sporadic group; our main result classifies the groups of this form with $mifix(T)leqslant{n}^{4/9}$. This builds on earlier work of Burness and Thomas, who studied the case where $T$ is an exceptional group of Lie type, and it strengthens the bound $mifix(T)>n^{1/6}$ (with prescribed exceptions), which was proved by Liebeck and Shalev in 2015. A similar result for classical groups will be established in a sequel.

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