On the Burness-Giudici Conjecture
Abstract
Let be a permutation group on a set . A subset of is a base for if its pointwise stabilizer in is trivial. By we denote the size of the smallest base of . Every permutation group with contains some regular suborbits. It is conjectured by Burness-Giudici in [4] that every primitive permutation group with has the property that if then , where is the union of all regular suborbits of relative to . An affirmative answer of the conjecture has been shown for many sporadic simple groups and some alternative groups in [4], but it is still open for simple groups of Lie-type. The first candidate of infinite family of simple groups of Lie-type we should work on might be , where . In this manuscript, we show the correctness of the conjecture for all the primitive groups with socle , see Theorem .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.04233,
title = {On the Burness-Giudici Conjecture},
author = {Huye Chen and Shaofei Du},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04233},
year = {2023}
}