Abelian point stabilizers in transitive permutation groups
Authors:
I. M. Isaacs
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Dr., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Abstract:
In this note we prove that if the point stabilizer in a transitive permutation group of degree is abelian, then the exponent of is less than . This extends an earlier result of Andrea Lucchini, who proved this in the case where is cyclic.