Infinite geometric groups of rank 4

DOI10.1016/0195-6698(92)90040-7MaRDI QIDQ1193544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter J. Cameron

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0195-6698(92)90040-7

zbMATH Keywords

finite rankfinite typefixed pointsgeometric permutation grouppointwise stabilizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Review text

A permutation group \(G\) is geometric if the pointwise stabilizer of any finite sequence of points acts transitively on the set of points it does not fix (if there are any). If there is \(r \in \mathbb{N}\) such that the stabiliser of some \(r\) points is the identity, then \(r\) is called the rank of \(G\). The group \(G\) has finite type if it has finite rank and the stabiliser of any sequence of length less than \(r\) has just finitely many fixed points. The author gives here a very short geometric proof that there is no infinite geometric group of finite rank at least 4 and finite type.

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