The proportion of fixed-point-free elements of a transitive permutation group

DOI10.1080/00927879308824728MaRDI QIDQ3135712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nigel Boston, Walter Dabrowski, Tuval Foguel, Paul J. Gies, David A. Jackson, Judy Leavitt, David T. Ose

Publication date 10 October 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1187&context=mathfacpub

zbMATH Keywords

fixed-point-free elementsgenerating functionsnilpotent groupssharply 2- transitivetransitive permutation groupwreath products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Primitive groups (20B15) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20)

Recommendations

• Fixed-Point-Free p -Elements in Transitive Permutation Groups
• On the number of fixed point free elements in a permutation group
• FIXED-POINT-FREE PERMUTATIONS IN TRANSITIVE PERMUTATION GROUPS OF PRIME-POWER ORDER
• On fixed-point-free permutation properties in groups and semigroups
• On a relation between the rank and the proportion of derangements in finite transitive permutation groups.
• Asymptotic Results for Transitive Permutation Groups
• The fixity of permutation groups
• Permutation groups where non-trivial elements have few fixed points
• A transversal property for permutation groups motivated by partial transformations
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 23053

Cites work

• Finite Permutation Groups and Finite Simple Groups
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3867330 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3920761 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3758564 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the degrees of primitive permutation groups
• Primitive Permutation Groups Containing an Element of Large Prime Order
• The probability of generating a classical group

Cited in

(24)

• On fixed points of permutations.
• On the number of fixed point free elements in a permutation group
• Bounds for fixed point free elements in a transitive group and applications to curves over finite fields
• Conjugacy class properties of the extension of \(\text{GL}(n,q)\) generated by the inverse transpose involution.
• The fixity of permutation groups
• Fixed point polynomials of permutation groups.
• Conjugacy classes of derangements in finite transitive groups
• An Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for finite 2-transitive groups
• Primitive permutation groups and derangements of prime power order.
• Bounds on the number and sizes of conjugacy classes in finite Chevalley groups with applications to derangements.
• Derangements in subspace actions of finite classical groups
• FIXED-POINT-FREE PERMUTATIONS IN TRANSITIVE PERMUTATION GROUPS OF PRIME-POWER ORDER
• On a theorem of Jordan
• Derangements in finite classical groups for actions related to extension field and imprimitive subgroups and the solution of the Boston–Shalev conjecture
• Braided Line and Counting Fixed Points ofGL(d, 𝔽_q)
• On a relation between the rank and the proportion of derangements in finite transitive permutation groups.
• On the number of derangements and derangements of prime power order of the affine general linear groups
• Derangements in wreath products of permutation groups
• Fixed-point-free elements in p-groups.
• Derangements in non-Frobenius groups
• Polynomials represented by norm forms via the beta sieve
• On derangements in simple permutation groups
• On cyclic semi-regular subgroups of certain 2-transitive permutation groups
• Permutation codes

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Cayley

This page was built for publication: The proportion of fixed-point-free elements of a transitive permutation group

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3135712)