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Random Permutations: Some Group-Theoretic Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Peter J. Cameron  and
William M. Kantor
Peter J. Cameron
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London El 4NS, U.K.
William M. Kantor
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The study of asymptotics of random permutations was initiated by Erdős and Turáan, in a series of papers from 1965 to 1968, and has been much studied since. Recent developments in permutation group theory make it reasonable to ask questions with a more group-theoretic flavour. Two examples considered here are membership in a proper transitive subgroup, and the intersection of a subgroup with a random conjugate. These both arise from other topics (quasigroups, bases for permutation groups, and design constructions).

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Research Article
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 257 - 262
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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