The non-existence of sharply 2-transitive sets of permutations in Sp(2d,2) of degree 2²d-1 2d-1

DOI10.1007/S13366-016-0298-2MaRDI QIDQ515737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominik Barth

Publication date 16 March 2017

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05164

zbMATH Keywords

sharply transitive subsetsymplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Abstract: We use M"uller and Nagy's method of contradicting subsets to give a new proof for the non-existence of sharply $2$-transitive subsets of the symplectic groups $mathrmSp(2d,2)$ in their doubly-transitive actions of degrees $2^{2d-1}pm{2}^{d-1}$. The original proof by Grundh"ofer and M"uller was rather complicated and used some results from modular representation theory, whereas our new proof requires only simple counting arguments.

Review text

The author proves that for \(d\geq 4\) the symplectic groups Sp\((2d,2)\) in their doubly transitive actions of degrees \(2^{2d-1} \pm 2^{d-1}\) have no sharply 2-transitive subsets. In fact, the point stabilizers O\({}^\pm (2d, 2)\) of these actions contain no sharply transitive subsets. This is proved by combinatorial arguments, using contradiction subsets in the sense of \textit{P. Müller} and \textit{G. P. Nagy} [Adv. Math. Commun. 5, No. 2, 303--308 (2011; Zbl 1229.20002)], thus simplifying the proof of Theorem 1.5 in [the reviewer and \textit{P. Müller}, Beitr. Algebra Geom. 50, No. 1, 143--154 (2009; Zbl 1165.20002)].

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