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We use the character-table of PGL(2, q) to determine the subsets of that group acting uniformly 3-homogeneously on the projective line.
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Bierbrauer, J. The Uniformly 3-Homogeneous Subsets of PGL(2, q). Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 4, 99–102 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022477413224
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022477413224