Saxl graphs of primitive affine groups with sporadic point stabilizers

DOI10.1142/S0218196723500194zbMATH Open1517.20005arXiv2108.02470MaRDI QIDQ6043410FDOQ6043410

Authors: Melissa Lee, Tomasz Popiel 

Publication date: 5 May 2023

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

Abstract: Let $G$ be a permutation group on a set $Omega$. A base for $G$ is a subset of $Omega$ whose pointwise stabiliser is trivial, and the base size of $G$ is the minimal cardinality of a base. If $G$ has base size $2$, then the corresponding Saxl graph $Sigma(G)$ has vertex set $Omega$ and two vertices are adjacent if they form a base for $G$. A recent conjecture of Burness and Giudici states that if $G$ is a finite primitive permutation group with base size $2$, then $Sigma(G)$ has the property that every two vertices have a common neighbour. We investigate this conjecture when $G$ is an affine group and a point stabiliser is an almost quasisimple group whose unique quasisimple subnormal subgroup is a covering group of a sporadic simple group. We verify the conjecture under this assumption, in all but ten cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02470

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zbMATH Keywords

base sizeaffine groupsporadic simple groupprimitive Saxl graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Primitive groups (20B15) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34)

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