The proportion of derangements characterizes the symmetric and alternating groups

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12639MaRDI QIDQ6133415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bjorn Poonen, Kaloyan Slavov

Publication date 18 August 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02724, https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145830

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupsfixed pointsmonodromy groupspermutation groupsproportion of derangementssymmetric groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Homogeneous approximation to one number (11J04) Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Characterization theorems for permutation groups (20B10) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a subgroup of the symmetric group $S_n$. If the proportion of fixed-point-free elements in $G$ (or a coset) equals the proportion of fixed-point-free elements in $S_n$, then $G=S_n$. The analogue for $A_n$ holds if $nge7$. We give an application to monodromy groups.

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