Regular orbits of symmetric and alternating groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.02.018zbMATH Open1395.20006arXiv1812.05880OpenAlexW2332787203MaRDI QIDQ290406FDOQ290406

Authors: Joanna B. Fawcett, E. A. O'Brien, Jan Saxl 

Publication date: 1 June 2016

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a finite group $G$ and a faithful irreducible $FG$-module $V$ where $F$ has prime order, does $G$ have a regular orbit on $V$? This problem is equivalent to determining which primitive permutation groups of affine type have a base of size 2. In this paper, we classify the pairs $(G,V)$ for which $G$ has a regular orbit on $V$ where $G$ is a covering group of a symmetric or alternating group and $V$ is a faithful irreducible $FG$-module such that the order of $F$ is prime and divides the order of $G$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05880

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zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsymmetric groupprimitive groupsregular orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

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Uses Software

• GAP
• Magma
• orb
• ATLAS Group Representations
• Spinsym

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