On Multiple Transitivity of Permutation Groups

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Abstract
It is well known that a doubly transitive group has an irreducible character χ1 such that χ1(R) = α(R) − 1 for any element R of and a quadruply transitive group has irreducible characters χ3 and χ3 such that χ2(R) = where α(R) and β(R) are respectively the numbers of one cycles and two cycles contained in R. G. Frobenius was led to this fact in the connection with characters of the symmetric groups and he proved the following interesting theorem: if a permutation group of degree n is t-ply transitive, then any irreducible character of the symmetric group of degree n with dimension at most equal to is an irreducible character of .

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