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The natural action of AGL(1,p) is affine type

Example

Let $p$ be prime. The natural action of $AGL (1, p) = F_{p} ⋊ F_{p}^{\times}$ on the set $F_{p}$ is of affine type.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The semidirect product action $(b, a) \cdot x = a x + b$ of $AGL (1, p)$ on $F_{p}$ .

[L1]

A faithful primitive group with a unique abelian minimal normal subgroup is of affine type (A unique abelian minimal normal subgroup gives affine type).

[A1]

The translation subgroup $F_{p} \times {1}$ is normal, abelian, and regular on $F_{p}$ .

Verification

technique · direct

1.1givenA1

The translation subgroup $V = F_{p} \times {1}$ is elementary abelian of order $p$ and acts regularly by $x \mapsto x + b$ .

2.1step 1.1choosealgebra

Let $N ⊴ AGL (1, p)$ be nontrivial. If $N \cap V \neq 1$ , then $V \leq N$ because $V$ has prime order. If $N \cap V = 1$ , then the image of $N$ in the quotient $AGL (1, p) / V ≅ F_{p}^{\times}$ is nontrivial; choose $(c, a) \in N$ with $a \neq 1$ . For any $b \in F_{p}$ , the commutator $(b, 1) (c, a) (- b, 1) (c, a)^{- 1} = ((1 - a) b, 1)$ lies in $N \cap V$ , contradiction. So every nontrivial normal subgroup contains $V$ , and $V$ is the unique minimal normal subgroup.

3.1L1step 2.1∎

Therefore [L1] applies, and the natural action of $AGL (1, p)$ is of affine type.

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Sources

Leonard H. Soicher, Primitive permutation groups (standard reference, not scraped)