scholarly journals Convergence of random walks on double transitive group generated by its permutational character

Let $P$ be a probability on a finite group $G$, $U(g)=\frac{1}{|G|}$ the uniform (trivial) probability on the group $G$, $P^{(n)}=P *\ldots*P$ an $n$-fold convolution of $P$. A lot of estimates of the rate of the convergence $P^{(n)}\rightarrow U$ are found in different norms. It is well known conditions under which $P^{(n)}\rightarrow U$ if $n\rightarrow\infty$. Many papers are devoted to estimating the rate of this convergence for different norms. We consider finite groups that have a double transitive representation by substitutions and the probability that naturally arises in this image. This probability on each element of the group is proportional to the number of fixed (or stationary) points of this element, which is considered as a substitution. In other words, this probability is a character of the substitution representation of the group. A probability is called class if it takes the same values on each class of conjugate elements of a group, that is, it is a function of the class. The considered probability is class because any character of a group takes on the same values on conjugate elements. Any probability (and, in general, functions with values in an arbitrary ring) on a group can be associated with an element of the group algebra of this group over this ring. The class probability corresponds to an element of the center of this group algebra; that is why the class probability is also called central. On an abelian group, any probability is class (central). In the paper convergence with respect to the norm $\|F\|=\sum\limits_{g\in G} |F(g)|$, where $F(g)$ is a function on group $G$, is considered. For the norm an exact formula not estimate only, as usual for rate of convergence of convolution $P^{(n)}\rightarrow U$ is given. It turns out that the norm of the difference $\|P^{(n)}-U\|$ is determined by the order of the group, degree the group as a substitution group, and the number of regular substitutions in the group. A substitution is called regular if it has no fixed points. Special cases are considered the symmetric group, the alternating group, the Zassenhaus group, and the Frobenius group of order $p(p-1)$ with the Frobenius core of order $p$ ($p$ is a prime number). A Zassenhaus group is a double transitive substitution group of a finite set in which only a trivial substitution leaves more than two elements of this set fixed.

2004 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 445-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIANXING BI ◽  
XIANHUA LI

In this paper, we prove that a finite group G is isomorphic to the alternating group An with n≥5 if and only if they have the same set of the orders of solvable subgroups.


2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Moghaddamfar ◽  
A. R. Zokayi

The degree pattern of a finite group G denoted by D(G) was introduced in [5]. We say that G is k-fold OD-characterizable if there exist exactly k non-isomorphic finite groups having the same order and same degree pattern as G. In the present article, we show that the alternating group A10 and the automorphism group Aut (McL) are 2-fold OD-characterizable, while the automorphism group Aut (J2) is 3-fold OD-characterizable and the symmetric group S10 is 8-fold OD-characterizable. It is worth mentioning that the prime graphs associated to these groups are connected and, in fact, among the groups with this property, they are the first groups which are investigated for OD-characterizability.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rola A. Hijazi ◽  
Fatme M. Charaf

Let G be a finite group. A subgroup H of G is said to be S-permutable in G if itpermutes with all Sylow subgroups of G. In this note we prove that if P, the Sylowp-subgroup of G (p > 2), has a subgroup D such that 1 <|D|<|P| and all subgroups H of P with |H| = |D| are S-permutable in G, then G′ is p-nilpotent.


2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 669-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingyao Xu ◽  
Qinhai Zhang

Let G be a finite group. A subgroup H of G is called conjugate-permutable in G if HHg = HgH for any g ∈ G. A group G is called an ECP-group if every subgroup of G is conjugate-permutable in G. In this paper, we study the influence of conjugate-permutable subgroups on the structure of a finite group, especially on the nilpotency or supersolvability of the group, and give some sufficient or necessary conditions for a finite group to be an ECP-group.


Author(s):  
Xuanli He ◽  
Qinghong Guo ◽  
Muhong Huang

Let [Formula: see text] be a finite group. A subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is called to be [Formula: see text]-permutable in [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] permutes with all Sylow subgroups of [Formula: see text]. A subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] is said to be [Formula: see text]-supplemented in [Formula: see text] if there exists a subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text]-permutable in [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we investigate [Formula: see text]-nilpotency of a finite group. As applications, we give some sufficient and necessary conditions for a finite group belongs to a saturated formation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 82-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Babai ◽  
Péter P. Pálfy ◽  
Jan Saxl

AbstractA p-regular element in a finite group is an element of order not divisible by the prime number p. We show that for every prime p and every finite simple group S, a fair proportion of elements of S is p-regular. In particular, we show that the proportion of p-regular elements in a finite classical simple group (not necessarily of characteristic p) is greater than 1/(2n), where n – 1 is the dimension of the projective space on which S acts naturally. Furthermore, in an exceptional group of Lie type this proportion is greater than 1/15. For the alternating group An, this proportion is at least 26/(27√n), and for sporadic simple groups, at least 2/29.We also show that for an arbitrary field F, if the simple group S is a quotient of a finite subgroup of GLn(F) then for any prime p, the proportion of p-regular elements in S is at least min{1/31, 1/(2n)}.Along the way we obtain estimates for the proportion of elements of certain primitive prime divisor orders in exceptional groups, complementing work by Niemeyer and Praeger (1998).Our result shows that in finite simple groups, p-regular elements can be found efficiently by random sampling. This is a key ingredient to recent polynomial-time Monte Carlo algorithms for matrix groups.Finally we complement our lower bound results with the following upper bound: for all n ≥ 2 there exist infinitely many prime powers q such that the proportion of elements of odd order in PSL(n,q) is less than 3/√n.


1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 467-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Giambruno ◽  
E. Jespers

Let ℚAn be the group algebra of the alternating group over the rationals. By exploiting the theory of Young tableaux, we give an explicit description of the minimal central idempotents of ℚAn. As an application we construct finitely many generators for a subgroup of finite index in the centre of the group of units of ℚAn.


1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Hamernik

In this note relations between the structure of a finite group G and ringtheoretical properties of the group algebra FG over a field F with characteristic p > 0 are investigated. Denoting by J(R) the Jacobson radical and by Z(R) the centre of the ring R, our aim is to prove the following theorem generalizing results of Wallace [10] and Spiegel [9]:Theorem. Let G be a finite group and let F be an arbitrary field of characteristic p > 0. Denoting by BL the principal block ideal of the group algebra FG the following statements are equivalent:(i) J(B1) ≤ Z(B1)(ii) J(B1)is commutative,(iii) G is p-nilpotent with abelian Sylowp-subgroups.


Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 877
Author(s):  
Jorge Martínez Carracedo

It is known that every element in the alternating group A n , with n ≥ 5 , can be written as a product of at most two Engel words of arbitrary length. However, it is still unknown if every element in an alternating group is an Engel word of Arbitrary length. In this paper, a different approach to this problem is presented, getting new results for small alternating groups.


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