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Sharply k-transitive actions

Definition

Let $k \geq 1$ , and let $G$ act on a set $Ω$ .

The action is sharply $k$ -transitive if for every ordered $k$ -tuples of pairwise distinct points $(α_{1}, \dots, α_{k}), (β_{1}, \dots, β_{k})$ there is a unique $g \in G$ with $g \cdot α_{i} = β_{i} for every 1 \leq i \leq k .$

Thus sharply $k$ -transitive means “ $k$ -transitive, with the transporting element unique”.

Depends on

k-transitive and k-homogeneous actions

Used by

The natural actions of symmetric and alternating groups Example
A finite sharply k-transitive action has order n(n-1)...(n-k+1) Proposition

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Sources

J. S. Milne, Group Theory, Chapter 4 (standard reference, not scraped)
K. Conrad, Transitive Group Actions (standard reference, not scraped)