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Block-Transitive Designs in Affine Spaces
This paper deals with block-transitive - designs in affine
spaces for large , with a focus on the important index case. We
prove that there are no non-trivial 5- designs admitting a
block-transitive group of automorphisms that is of affine type. Moreover, we
show that the corresponding non-existence result holds for 4- designs,
except possibly when the group is one-dimensional affine. Our approach involves
a consideration of the finite 2-homogeneous affine permutation groups.Comment: 10 pages; to appear in: "Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Generalised quadrangles with a group of automorphisms acting primitively on points and lines
We show that if G is a group of automorphisms of a thick finite generalised
quadrangle Q acting primitively on both the points and lines of Q, then G is
almost simple. Moreover, if G is also flag-transitive then G is of Lie type.Comment: 20 page
Large dimensional classical groups and linear spaces
Suppose that a group has socle a simple large-rank classical group.
Suppose furthermore that acts transitively on the set of lines of a linear
space . We prove that, provided has dimension at least 25,
then acts transitively on the set of flags of and hence the
action is known. For particular families of classical groups our results hold
for dimension smaller than 25.
The group theoretic methods used to prove the result (described in Section 3)
are robust and general and are likely to have wider application in the study of
almost simple groups acting on finite linear spaces.Comment: 32 pages. Version 2 has a new format that includes less repetition.
It also proves a slightly stronger result; with the addition of our
"Concluding Remarks" section the result holds for dimension at least 2
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