Regular-cycle proportion conjecture for primitive permutation groups

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Let (G,Ω)(G,\Omega) be a primitive permutation group not covered by the structural conjecture above. For g∈Gg\in G, let ogo_g denote the number of regular cycles of gg, and let cgc_g denote the total number of cycles of gg, including cycles of length 11.

Regular-cycle proportion conjecture. There exists an absolute positive constant cc such that, for every such (G,Ω)(G,\Omega) and every g∈Gg\in G,

ogcg>c.\frac{o_g}{c_g}>c.

This conjecture predicts a uniform positive proportion of regular cycles outside the exceptional structural family. It is presented in the paper as a further conjecture, and no resolution is supplied in the given text.

References

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Michael Giudici, Cheryl E. Praeger and Pablo Spiga, “Finite primitive permutation groups and regular cycles of their elements”, arXiv:1311.3906 (2013).

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