Toward the recognition of PGL_n via a high degree of generic transitivity

DOI10.1080/00927872.2018.1472271MaRDI QIDQ4634077zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 7 May 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00445

zbMATH Keywords

finite Morley rankmultiple transitivityprojective geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) Groups of finite Morley rank (20F11)

Abstract: In 2008, Borovik and Cherlin posed the problem of showing that the degree of generic transitivity of an infinite permutation group of finite Morley rank $(X,G)$ is at most $n+2$ where $n$ is the Morley rank of $X$. Moreover, they conjectured that the bound is only achieved (assuming transitivity) by $operatorname{PGL}_{n+1}(mathbbF)$ acting naturally on projective $n$-space. We solve the problem under the two additional hypotheses that (1) $(X,G)$ is $2$-transitive, and (2) $(X-x,G_x)$ has a definable quotient equivalent to $(mathbb{P}^{n-1}(mathbbF),operatorname{PGL}_n(mathbbF))$. The latter hypothesis drives the construction of the underlying projective geometry and is at the heart of an inductive approach to the main problem.

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