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

DOI10.1007/S11856-012-0163-4MaRDI QIDQ375689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

Publication date 31 October 2013

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

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)

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.

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