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Sunder and Wildberger (J. Algebr. Comb. 18, 135–151, 2003) introduced the notion of actions of finite hypergroups, and studied maximal irreducible actions and *-actions. One of the main results of Sunder and Wildberger states that if a finite hypergroup K admits an irreducible action which is both a maximal action and a *-action, then K arises from an association scheme. In this paper we will first show that an irreducible maximal action must be a *-action, and hence improve Sunder and Wildberger’s result (Theorem 2.9). Another important type of actions is the so-called w-maximal actions. For a w-maximal action π:K→Aff (X), we will prove that π is faithful and |X|≥|K|, and |K| is the best possible lower bound of |X|. We will also discuss the strong connectivity of the digraphs induced by a w-maximal action.
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Xu, B. On maximal actions and w-maximal actions of finite hypergroups. J Algebr Comb 27, 127–141 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-007-0082-3
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