The classification of almost simple 32-transitive groups.

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2013-05758-3zbMATH Open1281.20002arXiv1103.6069OpenAlexW1999230963WikidataQ56987520 ScholiaQ56987520MaRDI QIDQ2847037FDOQ2847037

Jan Saxl, John Bamberg, Martin W. Liebeck, Michael Giudici, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date: 4 September 2013

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

Abstract: A finite transitive permutation group is said to be 3/2-transitive if all the nontrivial orbits of a point stabilizer have the same size greater than 1. Examples include the 2-transitive groups, Frobenius groups and several other less obvious ones. We prove that 3/2-transitive groups are either affine or almost simple, and classify the latter. One of the main steps in the proof is an arithmetic result on the subdegrees of groups of Lie type in characteristic $p$: with some explicitly listed exceptions, every primitive action of such a group is either 2-transitive, or has a subdegree divisible by $p$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.6069

zbMATH Keywords

almost simple groupsfinite transitive permutation groups\(\mathbb QI\)-groups3/2-transitive groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Primitive groups (20B15) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20)

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• GAP
• Magma

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