Alternating-group conjugacy-class intersection conjecture

Let G=AnG=A_n with nn odd, let CC be a conjugacy class of nn-cycles, and let HH be the centralizer in GG of an element of CC. Let NG(H)N_G(H) denote the normalizer of HH in GG, and let ϕ\phi be Euler's totient function. Alternating-group intersection conjecture. Then

max{gHCgG}=HC=NG(H):H{ϕ(n),ϕ(n)/2}.\max\{|gH\cap C|\mid g\in G\}=|H\cap C|=|N_G(H):H|\in\{\phi(n),\phi(n)/2\}.

The claim would give a sharp bound for the quantity governing intersections of conjugacy classes with cosets of centralizers, in the alternating-group case. The source presents it as a conjecture and gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Nick Gill, “Quasirandom group actions”, arXiv:1302.1186 (2013).

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