Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
A group G ≤ GLK(V) is called K-primitive if there exists no non-trivial decomposition of V into a sum of K-spaces which is stabilised by G. We show that if V is a finite vector space and G a K-primitive subgroup of GLK(V) whose order is coprime to |V|, we can bound the order of G by |V|log2(|V|) apart from one exception. Later we use this result to obtain some lower bounds on the number of p–singular elements in terms of the group order and the minimal representation degree.