The main result of the paper is a description of the maximal ideals in the modular group algebras of the finitary symmetric and alternating groups (provided the characteristic p of the ground field is greater than 2). For the symmetric group there are exactly p − 1 such ideals and for the alternating group there are (p − 1)/2 of them. The description is obtained in terms of the annihilators of ...

A finitary permutation group is a natural generalization of a finite permutation group. The structure of a transitive finitary permutation group is surprisingly simple when its degree is infinite. Here we study primitivity, following P. M. Neumann’s work in the 1970s. We also study generalized solubility conditions on these groups. These notes arose from lectures aimed at an audience who had se...

in this paper‎, ‎we determine the simple groups $g=ab$‎, ‎where $b$ is isomorphic to $l_{3}(4)$ and $a$ isomorphic to an alternating or a symmetric group on $ngeq5$‎, ‎letters‎.