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Comment 2: Moving on from <strong>cyclic</strong> sub<strong>groups</strong> <strong>of</strong> G, does a<br />

nilpotent subgroup have regular orbits<br />

Theorem (B Bailey Hargraves, 1980): Let V be a <strong>finite</strong>dimensional<br />

space over GF (q). Suppose that D ⊆ GL(V ) is<br />

nilpotent with (|D|, q) = 1. Then D has a regular orbit on V,<br />

apart from a short list <strong>of</strong> exceptions.<br />

So let G = P SL(n, p) act on Ω = points <strong>of</strong> projective space,<br />

and suppose that a nilpotent D ⊂ G has a regular orbit on Ω.<br />

Let again ∆ be an arbitrary G-set, in the embedding case.

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