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Large doubly transitive orbits on a line

Part of: Finite geometry and special incidence structures Permutation groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Alessandro Montinaro
Alessandro Montinaro
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universitá degli Studi di LecceVia per Arnesano73100 LecceItalye-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Projective planes of order n with a coUineation group admitting a 2-transitive orbit on a line of length at least n/2 are investigated and new examples are provided.

MSC classification

Secondary: 51E15: Affine and projective planes 20B25: Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , October 2007 , pp. 227 - 270
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2007

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