Is the theory of finite primitive groups finished?

2012-12-11
10:00-11:00
FAMNIT-SEMIN
prof. Pablo Spiga (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Is the theory of finite primitive groups finished?
 From time to time you hear people saying that the theory of finite primitive groups is dead (after theO'Nan-Scott theorem and the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups). In this talk, we present a result on cycle lengths that could have been discovered by Schur, or Wielandt or Manning. However, they didn't because such powerful results are not the end of the theory, but the beginning.