Hurwitz components of groups with socle PSL(3, q)

For a finite group G, the Hurwitz space Hinr,g(G) is the space of genus g covers of the Riemann sphere P1 with r branch points and the monodromy group G. In this paper, we give a complete list of some almost simple groups of Lie rank two. That is, we assume that G is a primitive almost simple groups of Lie rank two. Under this assumption we determine the braid orbits on the suitable Nielsen classes, which is equivalent to finding connected components in Hinr,g(G).

On Groups Whose Irreducible Character Degrees of All Proper Subgroups are All Prime Powers

Isaacs, Passman, and Manz have determined the structure of finite groups whose each degree of the irreducible characters is a prime power. In particular, if G is a nonsolvable group and every character degree of a group G is a prime power, then G is isomorphic to S × A , where S ∈ A 5 , PSL 2 8 and A is abelian. In this paper, we change the condition, each character degree of a group G is a prime power, into the condition, each character degree of the proper subgroups of a group is a prime power, and give the structure of almost simple groups whose character degrees of all proper subgroups are all prime powers.

Almost Simple Groups of Lie Type and Symmetric Designs with $\lambda$ Prime

In this article, we investigate symmetric $(v,k,\lambda)$ designs $\mathcal{D}$ with $\lambda$ prime admitting flag-transitive and point-primitive automorphism groups $G$. We prove that if $G$ is an almost simple group with socle a finite simple group of Lie type, then $\mathcal{D}$ is either the point-hyperplane design of a projective space $\mathrm{PG}_{n-1}(q)$, or it is of parameters $(7,4,2)$, $(11,5,2)$, $(11,6,3)$ or $(45,12,3)$.

Finite groups with at most six vanishing conjugacy classes

Let [Formula: see text] be a finite group. We say that a conjugacy class of [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] is vanishing if there exists some irreducible character [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we show that finite groups with at most six vanishing conjugacy classes are solvable or almost simple groups.

A note on extremely primitive affine groups

Let G be a finite primitive permutation group on a set $$\Omega $$ Ω with non-trivial point stabilizer $$G_{\alpha }$$ G α . We say that G is extremely primitive if $$G_{\alpha }$$ G α acts primitively on each of its orbits in $$\Omega {\setminus } \{\alpha \}$$ Ω \ { α } . In earlier work, Mann, Praeger, and Seress have proved that every extremely primitive group is either almost simple or of affine type and they have classified the affine groups up to the possibility of at most finitely many exceptions. More recently, the almost simple extremely primitive groups have been completely determined. If one assumes Wall’s conjecture on the number of maximal subgroups of almost simple groups, then the results of Mann et al. show that it just remains to eliminate an explicit list of affine groups in order to complete the classification of the extremely primitive groups. Mann et al. have conjectured that none of these affine candidates are extremely primitive and our main result confirms this conjecture.