Incidence matrices, permutation characters, and the minimal genus of a permutation group

DOI10.1006/JCTA.2001.3229MaRDI QIDQ1601423zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kay Magaard, Daniel Frohardt, Robert Guralnick

Publication date 13 January 2003

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/322c06e0dd1fb47038a069c7f047a61ed418a21e

zbMATH Keywords

almost simple classical groupsgenusincidence matricespermutation characterspermutation modules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05)

Review text

Let \(V\) be a non-degenerate symplectic, orthogonal, or unitary space of dimension \(n\) over \(\text{GF}(q)\). The authors consider the incidence matrix \(H\) of totally singular 1-spaces of \(V\) against \(k\)-spaces of fixed isometry type (totally singular or non-degenerate). The main theorem is that if \(2\leq k<n\) then \(M:=HH^t\) is non-singular except in a particular case when \(M=0\), or in certain cases when \(k\) is large with respect to \(n\). As a corollary, the following is shown for an almost simple classical group \(G\) with natural module \(V\) of dimension \(n\) (with \(G\) not having a graph automorphism in the linear case): if \(2\leq k<n-1\), \(P\) is the stabiliser of a singular 1-space of \(V\), and \(K\) is the stabiliser of a totally singular or non-degenerate \(k\)-space of \(V\), then the permutation module \(1^G_P\) is a submodule of \(1^G_K\) except in 2 known cases. The excluded cases are when \(K\) is the stabiliser of a maximal totally singular subspace of \(V\) or of a 2-space containing no singular points, or the orthogonal complement of such. There is a further corollary, stating that if \(S\) is a simple classical group, then the minimal genus among all almost simple groups with socle \(S\) is realised by a non-\(k\)-space action or by one of 4 possible actions on subspaces of the natural module.

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• Finite primitive groups and regular orbits of group elements
• Primitive monodromy groups of genus at most two
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• Incidence modules for symplectic spaces in characteristic two

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