The affine and projective groups are maximal

DOI10.1090/tran/6608zbMath1397.20007arXiv1310.8157MaRDI QIDQ2790655

Itay Kaplan, Pierre Simon

Publication date: 7 March 2016

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8157

zbMATH Keywords

affine group; projective group; infinite symmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E28: Maximal subgroups

51E15: Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects)

51E10: Steiner systems in finite geometry

03C40: Interpolation, preservation, definability

20B27: Infinite automorphism groups