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MINIMAL EXCEPTIONAL $p$-GROUPS

Part of: Permutation groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2018

ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN Open the ORCID record for ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN [Opens in a new window]
ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK email r.m.chamberlain@warwick.ac.uk
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Abstract

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For a finite group $G$, denote by $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(G)$ the degree of a minimal permutation representation of $G$. We call $G$ exceptional if there is a normal subgroup $N\unlhd G$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(G/N)>\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}(G)$. To complete the work of Easdown and Praeger [‘On minimal faithful permutation representations of finite groups’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.38(2) (1988), 207–220], for all primes $p\geq 3$, we describe an exceptional group of order $p^{5}$ and prove that no exceptional group of order $p^{4}$ exists.

Keywords

permutation representationfinite p-group

MSC classification

Primary: 20B05: General theory for finite groups
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 3 , December 2018 , pp. 434 - 438
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

References

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