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Normalisers of primitive permutation groups in quasipolynomial time

Group Theory 2020-04-15 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We show that given generators for subgroups GG and HH of Sn\mathrm{S}_n, if GG is primitive then generators for NH(G)\mathrm{N}_H(G) may be computed in quasipolynomial time, namely 2O(log3n)2^{O(\log^3 n)}. The previous best known bound was simply exponential.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01377,
  title  = {Normalisers of primitive permutation groups in quasipolynomial time},
  author = {Colva Roney-Dougal and Sergio Siccha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01377},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages

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