The Probability that some Power of a Permutation has Small Degree

DOI10.1112/BLMS/12.1.47MaRDI QIDQ3876108zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John D. Bovey

Publication date 1980

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/12.1.47

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic subgroup with minimal degreeminimal degree of a subgroupprimitive subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Cited in

(11)

• On fixed points of permutations.
• Random sets which invariably generate the symmetric group
• The probability of generating certain profinite groups by two elements
• Generation of alternating groups by pairs of conjugates
• Permutations contained in transitive subgroups
• On Random Generation of the Symmetric Group
• On the Diameter of Random Cayley Graphs of the Symmetric Group
• Ewens sampling and invariable generation
• Random generation of the special linear group
• Research problems
• Bounds for the probability of generating the symmetric and alternating groups.

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