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On multiply transitive permutation groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

G. P. Monro
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics University of SydneyN.S.W. 2006Australia
D. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics University of SydneyN.S.W. 2006Australia
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Abstract

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We present a direct combinatorial proof of the characterization of the degree of transivity of a finite permutation group in terms of the Bell numbers.

Subject classification (Amer. Math.Soc. (MOS) 1970): 20 B 20.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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