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The Double Transitivity of a Class of Permutation Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ronald D. Bercov
Ronald D. Bercov*
Affiliation:
Cornell University and University of Alberta, Edmonton
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Certain finite groups H do not occur as a regular subgroup of a uniprimitive (primitive but not doubly transitive) group G. If such a group H occurs as a regular subgroup of a primitive group G, it follows that G is doubly transitive. Such groups H are called B-groups (8) since the first example was given by Burnside (1, p. 343), who showed that a cyclic p-group of order greater than p has this property (and is therefore a B-group in our terminology).

Burnside conjectured that all abelian groups are B-groups. A class of counterexamples to this conjecture due to W. A. Manning was given by Dorothy Manning in 1936 (3).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 17 , 1965 , pp. 480 - 493
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965

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