Singer Groups

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall D. Hestenes

Interest in the Singer groups has arisen in various places. The name itself results from the connection Singer [7] made between these groups and perfect difference sets, and this is closely associated with the geometric property that a Singer group is regular on the points of a projective space. Some information about these groups appears in Huppert's book [3, p. 187]. Singer groups are frequently useful in constructing examples and counterexamples. Our aim in this paper is to make a systematic study of the Singer subgroups of the linear groups, with a particular view to analyzing the examples they provide of Frobenius regular groups. Frobenius regular groups are a class of permutation groups generalizing the Zassenhaus groups, and Keller [5] has shown recently that they provide a new characterization of A6 and M11.

10.37236/1632 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keldon Drudge

We study the action of Singer groups of projective geometries (and their subgroups) on $(d-1)$-flats for arbitrary $d$. The possibilities which can occur are determined, and a formula for the number of orbits of each possible size is given. Motivated by an old problem of J.R. Isbell on the existence of certain permutation groups we pose the problem of determining, for given $q$ and $h$, the maximum co-dimension $f_q(n, h)$ of a flat of $PG(n-1, q)$ whose orbit under a subgroup of index $h$ of some Singer group covers all points of $PG(n-1, q)$. It is clear that $f_q (n, h) < n - \log_q (h)$; on the other hand we show that $f_q(n, h) \geq n - 1 - 2 \log _q (h)$.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
NICK GILL ◽  
BIANCA LODÀ ◽  
PABLO SPIGA

Abstract Let G be a permutation group on a set $\Omega $ of size t. We say that $\Lambda \subseteq \Omega $ is an independent set if its pointwise stabilizer is not equal to the pointwise stabilizer of any proper subset of $\Lambda $ . We define the height of G to be the maximum size of an independent set, and we denote this quantity $\textrm{H}(G)$ . In this paper, we study $\textrm{H}(G)$ for the case when G is primitive. Our main result asserts that either $\textrm{H}(G)< 9\log t$ or else G is in a particular well-studied family (the primitive large–base groups). An immediate corollary of this result is a characterization of primitive permutation groups with large relational complexity, the latter quantity being a statistic introduced by Cherlin in his study of the model theory of permutation groups. We also study $\textrm{I}(G)$ , the maximum length of an irredundant base of G, in which case we prove that if G is primitive, then either $\textrm{I}(G)<7\log t$ or else, again, G is in a particular family (which includes the primitive large–base groups as well as some others).


2000 ◽  
Vol 218 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Di Monte ◽  
Osvaldo Ferri ◽  
Stefania Ferri
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10.37236/2549 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Han ◽  
Zaiping Lu

In this paper, we investigate semisymmetric graphs which arise from affine primitive permutation groups. We give a characterization of such graphs, and then construct an infinite family of semisymmetric graphs which contains the Gray graph as the third smallest member. Then, as a consequence, we obtain a factorization,of the complete bipartite graph $K_{p^{sp^t},p^{sp^t}}$ into connected semisymmetric graphs, where $p$ is an prime, $1\le t\le s$ with $s\ge2$ while $p=2$.


1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. W. Glass

N. R. Reilly has obtained an algebraic characterization of the compatible tight Riesz orders that can be supported by certain partially ordered groups [13; 14]. The purpose of this paper is to give a “geometric“ characterization by the use of ordered permutation groups. Our restrictions on the partially ordered groups will likewise be geometric rather than algebraic. Davis and Bolz [3] have done some work on groups of all order-preserving permutations of a totally ordered field; from our more general theorems, we will be able to recapture their results.


1974 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Cecil

In a recent paper, [6], Nomizu and Rodriguez found a geometric characterization of umbilical submanifolds Mn ⊂ Rn+p in terms of the critical point behavior of a certain class of functions Lp, p ⊂ Rn+p, on Mn. In that case, if p ⊂ Rn+p, x ⊂ Mn, then Lp(x) = (d(x,p))2, where d is the Euclidean distance function.


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