On the involution fixity of exceptional groups of Lie type

DOI10.1142/S0218196718500200MaRDI QIDQ4575997zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timothy C. Burness, Adam R. Thomas

Publication date 12 July 2018

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03562

zbMATH Keywords

involution fixityprimitive actionsfinite exceptional groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Exceptional groups (20G41) Maximal subgroups (20E28)

Abstract: The involution fixity $mifix(G)$ of a permutation group $G$ of degree $n$ is the maximum number of fixed points of an involution. In this paper we study the involution fixity of primitive almost simple exceptional groups of Lie type. We show that if $T$ is the socle of such a group, then either $mifix(T)>n^{1/3}$, or $mifix(T)=1$ and $T={}^2{B}_2(q)$ is a Suzuki group in its natural $2$-transitive action of degree $n=q^2+1$. This bound is best possible and we present more detailed results for each family of exceptional groups, which allows us to determine the groups with $mifix(T)leqslant{n}^{4/9}$. This extends recent work of Liebeck and Shalev, who established the bound $mifix(T)>n^{1/6}$ for every almost simple primitive group of degree $n$ with socle $T$ (with a prescribed list of exceptions). Finally, by combining our results with the Lang-Weil estimates from algebraic geometry, we determine bounds on a natural analogue of involution fixity for primitive actions of exceptional algebraic groups over algebraically closed fields.

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