The binary actions of alternating groups

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Authors Nick Gill, Pierre Guillot

Published in arXiv

Abstract: Given a conjugacy class $mathcalC$ in a group $G$ we define a new graph, $Gamma(mathcalC)$, whose vertices are elements of $mathcalC$; two vertices $g,hinmathcalC$ are connected in $Gamma(mathcalC)$ if $[g,h]=1$ and either $g{h}^{-1}$ or $h{g}^{-1}$ is in $mathcalC$. We prove a lemma that relates the binary actions of the group $G$ to connectivity properties of $Gamma(mathcalC)$. This lemma allows us to give a complete classification of all binary actions when $G=A_n$, an alternating group on $n$ letters with $ngeq5$. We further demonstrate a connection between the graph $Gamma(mathcalC)$ and the notion of a strongly embedded subgroup of $G$ and we exploit this connection to prove a result concerning the binary actions of finite simple groups that contain a single conjugacy class of involutions.

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