Derangements in wreath products of permutation groups

Publication date 15 February 2024

Abstract: Given a finite group

G

acting on a set

X

let

d e l t a_{k} (G, X)

denote the proportion of elements in

G

that have exactly

k

fixed points in

X

. Let

m a t h r m S_{n}

denote the symmetric group acting on

[n] = 1, 2, d o t s, n

. For

A l e m a t h r m S_{m}

and

B l e m a t h r m S_{n}

, the permutational wreath product

A w r B

has two natural actions and we give formulas for both,

d e l t a_{k} (A w r B, [m] i m e s [n])

and

d e l t a_{k} (A w r B, [m]^{[n]})

. We prove that for

k = 0

the values of these proportions are dense in the intervals

[d e l t a_{0} (B, [n]), 1]

and

[d e l t a_{0} (A, [m]), 1]

. Among further result, we provide estimates for

d e l t a_{0} (G, [m]^{[n]})

for subgroups

G l e q m a t h r m S_{m} w r m a t h r m S_{n}

containing

m a t h r m A_{m}^{[n]}

.

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