Two-transitive actions on conjugacy classes

DOI10.1017/S0004972700033086MaRDI QIDQ4260280zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael J. J. Barry, Michael B. Ward

Publication date 25 September 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972700033086

zbMATH Keywords

\(2\)-transitive permutation groupsactionsconjugacy classesdoubly-transitive permutation groupsregular normal subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization theorems for permutation groups (20B10) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Review text

All finite groups \(G\) which act faithfully and \(2\)-transitively on a conjugacy class of elements of \(G\) are determined. The results are derived from the classification of finite \(2\)-transitive permutation groups which is based on the classification of finite simple groups. It turns out, by investigating the list of possible almost simple \(2\)-transitive groups, that all such groups \(G\) have a regular normal subgroup. Consequently, the main result of the paper (Theorem 1) is derived by looking at the classification of \(2\)-transitive groups having a regular normal subgroup due to Huppert, Hering and others.

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