Timeline for Which finite simple groups can be characterized by their action on a small set?
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| Sep 3, 2014 at 9:31 | vote | accept | Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta | ||
| Sep 2, 2014 at 22:02 | answer | added | Nick Gill | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 21:55 | comment | added | Nick Gill | ... By the way I have an e-copy of the LPS-memoir - email me if you want it.... | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 21:53 | comment | added | Nick Gill | .. I suspect this will be as small an action as one can hope for of the given type. To get the log bound in the question for a classical group of rank $n$, even for fixed $p$, one would need an action on a set of size polynomial in $n$ which is hopeless... | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 21:45 | comment | added | Nick Gill | @GeoffRobinson, The work on factorizations that you mention is by Praeger, Liebeck and Saxl and is in Memoirs of AMS. It gives a classification of every maximal factorization of every almost simple group. A quick glance suggests that (for $n$ large enough), there are no factorizations of any classical group with $P_2$, the "second" parabolic group.... | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 18:51 | history | asked | Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |