Submission date: 18 November 2021

Abstract:

We construct simple sharply 2-transitive groups. Our result answers an open question of Peter Neumann. In fact, we prove that every sharply 2-transitive group of characteristic 0 embeds into a simple sharply 2-transitive group.

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Full text arXiv 2111.09580: pdf, ps.