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Doubly transitive lines II: Almost simple symmetries

Combinatorics 2022-12-27 v2 Information Theory Group Theory math.IT Metric Geometry Representation Theory

Abstract

We study lines through the origin of finite-dimensional complex vector spaces that enjoy a doubly transitive automorphism group. This paper classifies those lines that exhibit almost simple symmetries. We introduce a general recipe involving Schur covers to recover doubly transitive lines from their automorphism group. Combining our results with recent work on the affine case by Dempwolff and Kantor, we deduce a classification of all linearly dependent doubly transitive lines in real or complex space.

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@article{arxiv.1905.06859,
  title  = {Doubly transitive lines II: Almost simple symmetries},
  author = {Joseph W. Iverson and Dustin G. Mixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06859},
  year   = {2022}
}
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