On transitive permutation groups with bounded movement
Let $G$ be a permutation group on a set $\Omega$. Then for each $g\in G$, we define the movement of $g$, denoted by ${\rm move}(g)$, the maximal cardinality $|\Delta^{g}\backslash \Delta|$ of $\Delta^{g}\backslash \Delta$ over all subsets $\Delta$ of $\Omega$. And the movement of $G$ is defined as the maximum of ${\rm move}(g)$ over all $g\in G$, denoted by ${\rm move}(G)$. A permutation group $G$ is said to have bounded movement if it has movement bounded by some positive integer $m$, that is ${\rm move}(G)\leq m$. In this paper, we consider the finite transitive permutation groups $G$ with movement ${\rm move}(G)=m$ for some positive integer $m>4$, where $G$ is not a $2$-group but in which every non-identity element has the movement $m$ or $m-4$, and there is at least one non-identity element that has the movement $m-4$. We give a characterization for elements of $G$ in Theorem 1.1. Further, we apply Theorem 1.1 to characterize transitive permutation group $G$ in Theorem 1.2. These results give a partial answer to the open problem posed by the authors in 2024.
Authors
- Linzh ng Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7006-4869)
- Hailin Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-7374)
Institutions
- Jiangxi University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
- Published
- 2025-04-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15672/hujms.1579866
- Primary Topic
- Finite Group Theory Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- China Scholarship Council