The Probability that some Power of a Permutation has Small Degree

DOI10.1112/blms/12.1.47zbMath0436.20002OpenAlexW2002472581WikidataQ105698301 ScholiaQ105698301MaRDI QIDQ3876108

John D. Bovey

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/12.1.47

zbMATH Keywords

primitive subgroupcyclic subgroup with minimal degreeminimal degree of a subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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