Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Series A)

Research Article

On doubly transitive permutation groups of degree prime squared plus one

Peter J. Camerona1

a1 Merton College Oxford OX1 4JD England.

Abstract

Groups with the property of the title were considered by Chillag (1977); this paper completes his results by showing that, with known exceptions, they are triply transitive.

(Received January 05 1978)

Subject classification (Amer. Math. Soc. (MOS) 1970)

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