TY  - JOUR
T1  - On the proportion of elements of order $2p$ in finite symmetric groups
AU  - Liu, Hailin
AU  - Zhong, Liping
PY  - 2025
DA  - February
DO  - 10.15672/hujms.1367438
JF  - Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
PB  - Hacettepe University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2651-477X
SP  - 173
EP  - 179
VL  - 54
IS  - 1
LA  - en
AB  - This is one of a series of papers that aims to give an explicit upper bound on the proportion of elements of order a product of two primes in finite symmetric groups. This one presents such a bound for the elements with order twice a prime.
KW  - symmetric group
KW  - element
KW  - proportion
KW  - order
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.15672/hujms.1367438
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/3438265
ER  -