Regular orbits of symmetric and alternating groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.02.018MaRDI QIDQ290406zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joanna B. Fawcett, E. A. O'Brien, Jan Saxl

Publication date 1 June 2016

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05880

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupprimitive groupsregular orbitssymmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: Given a finite group $G$ and a faithful irreducible $FG$-module $V$ where $F$ has prime order, does $G$ have a regular orbit on $V$? This problem is equivalent to determining which primitive permutation groups of affine type have a base of size 2. In this paper, we classify the pairs $(G,V)$ for which $G$ has a regular orbit on $V$ where $G$ is a covering group of a symmetric or alternating group and $V$ is a faithful irreducible $FG$-module such that the order of $F$ is prime and divides the order of $G$.

Review text

In this paper, the authors classify the pairs \((G,V)\) for which \(G\) has a regular orbit on \(V\) where \(G\) is a covering group of a symmetric or alternating group and \(V\) is a faithful irreducible \(FG\)-module such that the order of \(F\) is prime and divides the order of \(G\).

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Uses Software

• Magma
• orb
• Spinsym
• ATLAS Group Representations
• GAP

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