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Extremely primitive sporadic and alternating groups

Extremely primitive sporadic and alternating groups
Extremely primitive sporadic and alternating groups
A non-regular primitive permutation group is said to be extremely primitive if a point stabilizer acts primitively on each of its orbits. By a theorem of Mann and the second and third authors, every finite extremely primitive group is either almost simple or of affine type. In a recent paper, we classified the extremely primitive almost simple classical groups, and in this note we determine the examples with a sporadic or alternating socle. We obtain two infinite families for An (or Sn); they comprise the natural 2-primitive action of n points, plus the action on partitions of {1,?…?, n} into subsets of size n/2 (with n/2 odd). There are twenty examples for sporadic groups, including the rank 6 representation of Co2 on the cosets of McL.
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Burness, Timothy C.
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Seress, Akos
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Burness, Timothy C., Praeger, Cheryl E. and Seress, Akos (2012) Extremely primitive sporadic and alternating groups. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1-8. (doi:10.1112/blms/bds038).

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A non-regular primitive permutation group is said to be extremely primitive if a point stabilizer acts primitively on each of its orbits. By a theorem of Mann and the second and third authors, every finite extremely primitive group is either almost simple or of affine type. In a recent paper, we classified the extremely primitive almost simple classical groups, and in this note we determine the examples with a sporadic or alternating socle. We obtain two infinite families for An (or Sn); they comprise the natural 2-primitive action of n points, plus the action on partitions of {1,?…?, n} into subsets of size n/2 (with n/2 odd). There are twenty examples for sporadic groups, including the rank 6 representation of Co2 on the cosets of McL.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 16 April 2012
Organisations: Pure Mathematics

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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/338305
ISSN: 0024-6093
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Date deposited: 14 May 2012 10:48
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 11:03

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Author: Timothy C. Burness
Author: Cheryl E. Praeger
Author: Akos Seress

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