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A theorem on transitive groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Garrett Birkhoff
Affiliation:
Trinity College.

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Let be any transitive permutation group on the n symbols 1, …, n. Let be the subgroup of whose elements leave i fixed. Let ′ be the normalizer of , i.e., the subgroup of the symmetric group on 1, …, n transforming into itself. Let G′, G1, G2, etc., denote elements of ′. Finally, let ″ be the centralizer of , i.e., the subgroup in transforming every element of into itself.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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Isomorphic means isomorph in the sense of Speiser.