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On relative difference sets and projective planes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Fred Piper
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Westfield College, University of London, Hampstead, London, NWS 3ST
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A permutation group is quasiregular if it acts regularly on each of its orbits (i.e. the stabiliser of an element fixes every other element in its orbit). So, in particular, any permutation representation of an abelian or hamiltonian group must be quasiregular.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1974

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