Paper 2, Section I, G

Groups, Rings and Modules
Part IB, 2020

Assume a group GG acts transitively on a set Ω\Omega and that the size of Ω\Omega is a prime number. Let HH be a normal subgroup of GG that acts non-trivially on Ω\Omega.

Show that any two HH-orbits of Ω\Omega have the same size. Deduce that the action of HH on Ω\Omega is transitive.

Let αΩ\alpha \in \Omega and let GαG_{\alpha} denote the stabiliser of α\alpha in GG. Show that if HGαH \cap G_{\alpha} is trivial, then there is a bijection θ:HΩ\theta: H \rightarrow \Omega under which the action of GαG_{\alpha} on HH by conjugation corresponds to the action of GαG_{\alpha} on Ω\Omega.