Orbits on cycles of automorphisms

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Authors Eric Mendelsohn, B. S. Webb

Publication date 14 June 2001

Published in Utilitas Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

actionsautomorphism groupsBlock's lemmablockscycle decompositionsgeneralized charactersmaximal rank incidence structuresorbitspoints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Homomorphism, automorphism and dualities in linear incidence geometry (51A10)

Review text

Block's lemma states that an automorphism group \(G\) of a (finite) maximal rank incidence structure acts with at least as many orbits on the blocks as on the points. The authors look at the action of \(G\) on the set \(C_i(G)\) of all \(i\)-cycles that occur in the cycle decomposition of some element of \(G\), and show that cyclic and Abelian automorphism groups act with at least as many orbits on \(C_i(G_{\mathcal B})\) as on \(C_i(G_{\mathcal P})\). They give examples of maximal rank structures with more orbits on the point 2-cycles than on the block 2-cycles, showing that Block's lemma cannot be generalized to these actions on cycles.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe proofs are an application of generalized characters and use an interpretation of Block's lemma as described by \textit{A. Camina} and \textit{J. Siemons} [Linear Algebra Appl. 117, 25-34 (1989; Zbl 0681.20002)].

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