Burnside’s method
Wildon's Weblog 2018-03-12
Summary:
Burnside proved in 1901 that if is an odd prime then a permutation group containing a regular subgroup isomorphic to is either imprimitive or 2-transitive. His proof was an early application of character theory to permutation groups. Groups with this property are now called B-groups. Burnside attempted to generalize his 1901 result in two later […]