The element-order divisibility matching conjecture for finite groups

About 11 years old · traced to

Let GG be a finite group of order nn, let CnC_n be the cyclic group of order nn, and write o(x)o(x) for the order of an element xx. Element-order divisibility matching conjecture. There exists a bijection

f:G→Cnf:G\to C_n

such that o(x)o(x) divides o(f(x))o(f(x)) for every x∈Gx\in G.

This pointwise assertion would imply the corresponding inequalities for sums of inverse powers of element orders. It is presented as a conjecture because the argument in the cited work contains a gap, although the authors report strong evidence for it.

References

Primary source

Martino Garonzi and Massimiliano Patassini, “Inequalities detecting structural properties of a finite group”, arXiv:1503.00355 (2015).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.