Kirillov's lower-bound conjectures for small-field unitriangular groups

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For n≥1n\geq 1, let Un(q)U_n(q) be the group of upper triangular n×nn\times n matrices over Fq\mathbb F_q with ones on the diagonal, and let k(Un(q))k(U_n(q)) denote its number of conjugacy classes. Let {An}\{A_n\} be the Euler sequence and {Bn}\{B_n\} the Springer sequence. Kirillov's conjectures. For all n≥1n\geq 1,

k(Un(2))≥An+1k\bigl(U_n(2)\bigr)\geq A_{n+1}

and

k(Un(3))≥Bn+1.k\bigl(U_n(3)\bigr)\geq B_{n+1}.

These lower bounds are attributed to Kirillov; the source does not give their resolution.

References

Primary source

Igor Pak and Andrew Soffer, “On Higman's k(U_n(F_q)) conjecture”, arXiv:1507.00411 (2015).

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