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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

The Uniformly 3-Homogeneous Subsets of PGL(2, q)

Jürgen Bierbrauer

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022477413224

Abstract

We use the character-table of PGL(2, q) to determine the subsets of that group acting uniformly 3-homogeneously on the projective line.

Pages: 99–102

Keywords: authentication; secrecy; permutation; group; character-table; perpendicular array

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