Speed's orbit problem: Variations on themes of Burnside

DOI10.1006/EUJC.1999.0303MaRDI QIDQ1970082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. D. H. Smith

Publication date 26 April 2000

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3a567166147c44246661b1831d937af73aac914d

zbMATH Keywords

actions on direct powersBurnside algebrasBurnside ringsfinite permutation groupsincidence algebrasMöbius inversionorbit decompositionspartially ordered setsposetsregular orbitssubgroup latticessuperschemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Frobenius induction, Burnside and representation rings (19A22) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Series and lattices of subgroups (20D30)

Review text

Suppose that a finite group \(G\) acts transitively (and faithfully) on a set \(Q\). The problem to describe the orbits of the diagonal action of \(G\) on the direct power \(Q^r\) for \(r\geq 2\) is called Speed's orbit problem. A solution to this problem is proposed in terms of the Burnside algebra of the group \(G\) and the right action of an incidence algebra of the subgroup lattice on a module of finitary functions. As a consequence, it is shown that for large \(r\) almost every element of \(Q^r\) lies in a regular \(G\)-orbit.

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