The exceptional symmetric-group factorization conjecture for bismash products
Let be an exact factorization of with as in the classified cases for or , and let be sharply -transitive. Set
The exceptional factorization conjecture. The bismash product has an irreducible module with Schur indicator .
The claim predicts that the exceptional complements of the symmetric groups yield the negative Schur indicators that do not occur for the ordinary symmetric-group factorizations. The displayed example establishes this phenomenon for one factorization, while the stated general case remains conjectural.
References
Primary source
Joseph Timmer, “Indicators of Bismash Products from Exact Symmetric Group Factorizations”, arXiv:1412.4725 (2015).
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