A primitive permutation group is called extremely primitive if a point stabilizer acts primitively on each of its orbits. We prove that finite extremely primitive groups are of affine type or almost simple. Moreover, we determine the affine type examples up to finitely many exceptions.
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Avinoam Mann; Cheryl E. Praeger; Ákos Seress. Extremely primitive groups. Groups, geometry, and dynamics, Tome 1 (2007) no. 4, pp. 623-660. doi: 10.4171/ggd/27
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