Totally 2-closed finite groups with trivial Fitting subgroup

DOI10.1142/S1664360723500042MaRDI QIDQ6382078zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Majid Arezoomand, M. A. Iranmanesh, Cheryl E. Praeger, Gareth M. Tracey

Publication date 3 November 2021

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S1664360723500042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: A group $G$ is said to be totally $2$-closed if in each of its faithful permutation representations, say on a set $Omega$, $G$ is the largest subgroup of $mathrmSym(Omega)$ which leaves invariant each of the $G$-orbits for the induced action on $OmegaimesOmega$. We prove that there are precisely $47$ finite totally $2$-closed groups with trivial Fitting subgroup. Each of these groups is a direct product of pairwise non-isomorphic sporadic simple groups, with the direct factors coming from the Janko groups $mathrm{J}_1,mathrm{J}_3$ and $mathrm{J}_4$, together with $mathrmLy,mathrmTh$ and the Monster $mathbbM$. These are the first known examples of insoluble totally $2$-closed groups. As a by-product of our methods, we develop several tools for studying $2$-closures of transitive permutation groups -- a vital tool in the study of representations of finite groups as automorphism groups of digraphs. We also prove a dual to a 1939 theorem of Frucht from Algebraic Graph Theory.

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