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On the Sylow subgroups of a doubly transitive permutation group III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Cheryl E. Praeger
Cheryl E. Praeger
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Let G be a 2-transitive permutation group of a set Ω of n points and let P be a Sylow p-subgroup of G where p is a prime dividing |G|. If we restrict the lengths of the orbits of P, can we correspondingly restrict the order of P? In the previous two papers of this series we were concerned with the case in which all P–orbits have length at most p; in the second paper we looked at Sylow p–subgroups of a two point stabiliser. We showed that either P had order p, or G ≥ An, G = PSL(2, 5) with p = 2, or G = M11 of degree 12 with p = 3. In this paper we assume that P has a subgroup Q of index p and all orbits of Q have length at most p. We conclude that either P has order at most p2, or the groups are known; namely PSL(3, p) ≤ G ≤ PGL(3, p), ASL(2, p) ≤ G ≤ AGL(2, p), G = PΓL,(2, 8) with p = 3, G = M12 with p = 3, G = PGL(2, 5) with p = 2, or G ≥ An with 3p ≤ n < 2p2; all in their natural representations.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 211 - 240
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1975

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