Transitive permutation groups in which all derangements are involutions.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2005.11.005MaRDI QIDQ852923zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. M. Isaacs, Thomas Michael Keller, Mark L. Lewis, Alexander Moretó

Publication date 15 November 2006

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2005.11.005

zbMATH Keywords

centralizers of involutionsderangementselementary Abelian \(2\)-groupsfinite transitive permutation groupsfixed point free permutationsFrobenius groupsinvolutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization theorems for permutation groups (20B10) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06)

Review text

A permutation without fixed points is called a `derangement'. In the present paper all finite transitive permutation groups are determined in which all derangements are involutions. Also the corresponding problem for abstract groups is considered. There are no surprises. The proof of the main result depends on the classification of finite simple groups.

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