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Authors: N. L. Biggs and A. T. White
Title: Permutation groups and combinatorial structures
Additional book information: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series No. 33, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York and London, 1979, viii + 140 pp., $13.95.

Norman Biggs, Finite groups of automorphisms, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, London-New York, 1971. MR 0327563

Peter J. Cameron, Parallelisms of complete designs, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, No. 23, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, 1976. MR 0419245

P. J. Cameron and J. H. van Lint, Graph theory, coding theory and block designs, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, No. 19, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, 1975. MR 0406822

L. Carlitz, A theorem on permutations in a finite field, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1960), 456–459. MR 117223, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9939-1960-0117223-6

R. D. Carmichael, Tactical Configurations of Rank Two, Amer. J. Math. 53 (1931), no. 1, 217–240. MR 1506812, DOI 10.2307/2370885

Donald G. Higman and Charles C. Sims, A simple group of order $44,352,000$, Math. Z. 105 (1968), 110–113. MR 227269, DOI 10.1007/BF01110435

Heinz Lüneburg, Transitive Erweiterungen endlicher Permutationsgruppen, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, No. 84, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1969 (German). MR 0241518

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E. Mathieu, Mémoire sur l'étude des fonctions de plusieurs quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 6 (1861), 241-323.

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E. Mathieu, Sur la fonction cinq fois transitive de 24 quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 18 (1873), 24-46.

Helmut Wielandt, Finite permutation groups, Academic Press, New York-London, 1964. Translated from the German by R. Bercov. MR 0183775

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E. Witt, Die 5-fach transitiven Gruppen von Mathieu, Abh. Hamburg 12 (1938), 256-264.

1.

N. L. Biggs, Finite groups of automorphisms, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series no. 6, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1971. MR 0327563

2.

P. J. Cameron, Parallelisms of designs, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series no. 23, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1976. MR 419245

3.

P. J. Cameron and J. H. van Lint, Graph theory, coding theory and block designs, London, Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series no. 19, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1975. MR 406822

4.

L. Carlitz, A theorem on permutations in a finite field, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1960), 456-459. MR 117223

5.

R. D. Carmichael, Tactical configurations of rank two, Amer. J. Math. 53 (1931), 217-240. MR 1506812

6.

D. G. Higman and C. C. Sims, A simple group of order 44,352,000, Math. Z. 105 (1968), 110-113. MR 227269

7.

H. Lüneburg, Transitive Erweiterungen endlicher Permutationsgruppen, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 84, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1969. MR 241518

8.

E. Mathieu, Mémoire sur l'étude des fonctions de plusieurs quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 6 (1861), 241-323.

9.

E. Mathieu, Sur la fonction cinq fois transitive de 24 quantités, J. Math. Pures Appl. 18 (1873), 24-46.

10.

H. Wielandt, Finite permutation groups, Academic Press, New York, 1964. MR 183775

11.

E. Witt, Die 5-fach transitiven Gruppen von Mathieu, Abh. Hamburg 12 (1938), 256-264.