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Abelian Carter subgroups in finite permutation groups

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We show that a finite permutation group containing a regular abelian self-normalizing subgroup is soluble.

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Jabara, E., Spiga, P. Abelian Carter subgroups in finite permutation groups. Arch. Math. 101, 301–307 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-013-0558-4

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