The proportion of fixed-point-free elements of a transitive permutation group

DOI10.1080/00927879308824728zbMath0783.20002MaRDI QIDQ3135712

Tuval Foguel, Nigel Boston, David A. Jackson, David T. Ose, Walter Dabrowski, Paul J. Gies, Judy Leavitt

Publication date: 10 October 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1187&context=mathfacpub

zbMATH Keywords

generating functions; wreath products; nilpotent groups; transitive permutation group; fixed-point-free elements; sharply 2- transitive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05A15: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions

20B15: Primitive groups

20B05: General theory for finite permutation groups

20B20: Multiply transitive finite groups

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Uses Software

• Cayley

Cites Work

• On the degrees of primitive permutation groups
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