Permutation groups, simple groups, and sieve methods

DOI10.1007/BF02775443MaRDI QIDQ814164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Cheryl E. Praeger, Aner Shalev, D. R. Heath-Brown

Publication date 6 February 2006

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02775443

zbMATH Keywords

permutation groupSieve methodsimple group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

Review text

Let \(I\) be the set of indices of non-trivial subgroups of finite non-abelian simple groups except that of the alternating group on \(n-1\) letters in the alternating group in \(n\) letters. In the paper under review for any real number \(x>1\) it is shown that the number of integers \(n\) in \(I\) not exceeding \(x\) is ~\(hx/\log(x)\) for some given constant \(h\). As a consequence it is shown that for most positive integers \(n\) the only quasiprimitive permutation groups of degree \(n\) are the symmetric and the alternating groups on \(n\) letters. The proof is a combination of group theoretic and number theoretic methods.

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