Permutation Groups and Group Actions

Code: MA723 | L-T-P-C: 4-0-0-8

MA723 Permutation Groups and Group Actions [4-0-0-8] Prerequisites: MA547 Complex Analysis.

Group actions, Orbits and Stabilizer, Transitivity, Primitivity, Suborbits and Orbits, Linear groups, Wreath products, Structure of primitive groups and symmetric groups, Groups acting on trees, Jordan groups.

Texts:

1. Dixon and Motimer, Permutation Groups, Springer GTM, 1996.
2. Bhattacharjee et-al, Notes on Infinite Permutation Groups, Springer, 1997.
3. Cameron, Permutation Groups, LMS Series, CUP 1999.