Simple sharply 2-transitive groups

2021/11/18 by André, Simon, Tent, Katrin
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.09580

Abstract

We construct simple sharply 2-transitive groups. Our result answers an open question of Peter Neumann. In fact, we prove that every sharply 2-transitive group of characteristic 0 embeds into a simple sharply 2-transitive group.

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