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Permutation Groups Whose Subgroups Have Just Finitely Many Orbits

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Ordered Groups and Infinite Permutation Groups

Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 354))

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In this note we answer a question of Peter Neumann, based on some earlier more general questions of R. Zimmer concerning actions of arithmetic groups and Lie groups on manifolds. The main question of Zimmer is the following.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, England

    Dugald Macpherson

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    W. Charles Holland

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Macpherson, D. (1996). Permutation Groups Whose Subgroups Have Just Finitely Many Orbits. In: Holland, W.C. (eds) Ordered Groups and Infinite Permutation Groups. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 354. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3443-9_8

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