Properties of Permutation Groups Using Wreath Product

Wreath Decompositions of Finite Permutation Groups

There is a familiar construction with two finite, transitive permutation groups as input and a finite, transitive permutation group, called their wreath product, as output. The corresponding 'imprimitive wreath decomposition concept is the first subject of this paper. A formal definition is adopted and an overview obtained for all such decompositions of any given finite, transitive group. The r...

Three Types of Inclusions of Innately Transitive Permutation Groups into Wreath Products in Product Action

A permutation group is innately transitive if it has a transitive minimal normal subgroup, and this subgroup is called a plinth. In this paper we study three special types of inclusions of innately transitive permutation groups in wreath products in product action. This is achieved by studying the natural Cartesian decomposition of the underlying set that correspond to the product action of a w...

Automorphism Groups of Wreath Product Digraphs

We strengthen a classical result of Sabidussi giving a necessary and sufficient condition on two graphs, X and Y , for the automorphsim group of the wreath product of the graphs, Aut(X o Y ) to be the wreath product of the automorphism groups Aut(X) o Aut(Y ). We also generalize this to arrive at a similar condition on color digraphs. The main purpose of this paper is to revisit a well-known an...

Automorphisms of Regular Wreath Product p-Groups

We present a useful new characterization of the automorphisms of the regular wreath product group P of a finite cyclic p-group by a finite cyclic p-group, for any prime p, and we discuss an application. We also present a short new proof, based on representation theory, for determining the order of the automorphism group Aut P , where P is the regular wreath product of a finite cyclic p-group by...

Image Processing with Wreath Product Groups