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Doubly transitive lines II: Almost simple symmetries
We study lines through the origin of finite-dimensional complex vector spaces
that enjoy a doubly transitive automorphism group. This paper, the second in a
series, classifies those lines that exhibit almost simple symmetries. To
perform this classification, we introduce a general recipe involving Schur
covers to recover doubly transitive lines from their automorphism group
The Permutation Groups and the Equivalence of Cyclic and Quasi-Cyclic Codes
We give the class of finite groups which arise as the permutation groups of
cyclic codes over finite fields. Furthermore, we extend the results of Brand
and Huffman et al. and we find the properties of the set of permutations by
which two cyclic codes of length p^r can be equivalent. We also find the set of
permutations by which two quasi-cyclic codes can be equivalent
A characterisation of weakly locally projective amalgams related to and the sporadic simple groups and
A simple undirected graph is weakly -locally projective, for a group of
automorphisms , if for each vertex , the stabiliser induces on the
set of vertices adjacent to a doubly transitive action with socle the
projective group for an integer and a prime power .
It is -locally projective if in addition is vertex transitive. A theorem
of Trofimov reduces the classification of the -locally projective graphs to
the case where the distance factors are as in one of the known examples.
Although an analogue of Trofimov's result is not yet available for weakly
locally projective graphs, we would like to begin a program of characterising
some of the remarkable examples. We show that if a graph is weakly locally
projective with each and or , and if the distance factors
are as in the examples arising from the rank 3 tilde geometries of the groups
and , then up to isomorphism there are exactly two possible
amalgams. Moreover, we consider an infinite family of amalgams of type
(where each and ) and prove that if
there is a unique amalgam of type and it is
unfaithful, whereas if then there are exactly four amalgams of type
, precisely two of which are faithful, namely the ones related
to and , and one other which has faithful completion
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