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A161891
Primes p with the property that every non-solvable transitive permutation group of degree p is alternating or symmetric.
0
5, 19, 29, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 79, 83, 89, 97
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Wielandt mentions only p=5, 19, 47, 59. The rest follows from the classification of finite simple groups.
REFERENCES
Wielandt, Finite Permutation Groups, p. 29.
Dixon, Mortimer, Permutation Groups, Springer, 1996, p. 99.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A270865 A106072 A106062 * A296930 A251623 A341079
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
David Brink, Jun 21 2009
STATUS
approved