Coprime subdegrees for primitive permutation groups and completely reducible linear groups.

DOI10.1007/S11856-012-0163-4zbMATH Open1287.20005arXiv1109.6559OpenAlexW2037815580WikidataQ56987485 ScholiaQ56987485MaRDI QIDQ375689FDOQ375689

Pablo Spiga, Cheryl E. Praeger, Robert Guralnick, Silvio Dolfi

Publication date: 31 October 2013

Published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we answer a question of Gabriel Navarro about orbit sizes of a finite linear group H acting completely reducibly on a vector space V: if the orbits containing the vectors a and b have coprime lengths m and n, we prove that the orbit containing a+b has length mn. Such groups H are always reducible if n and m are greater than 1. In fact, if H is an irreducible linear group, we show that, for every pair of non-zero vectors, their orbit lengths have a non-trivial common factor. In the more general context of finite primitive permutation groups G, we show that coprime non-identity subdegrees are possible if and only if G is of O'Nan-Scott type AS, PA or TW. In a forthcoming paper we will show that, for a finite primitive permutation group, a set of pairwise coprime subdegrees has size at most 2. Finally, as an application of our results, we prove that a field has at most 2 finite extensions of pairwise coprime indices with the same normal closure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6559

zbMATH Keywords

primitive permutation groupsirreducible modulescompletely reducible linear groupsorbit lengthssubdegrees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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