Vanishing probability of a Latin-square autotopism component

For n>0n>0, let SnS_n be the symmetric group on nn symbols, let Atp(n)\mathrm{Atp}(n) denote the autotopism group of Latin squares of order nn, and let P(n)\mathbb{P}(n) be the probability that a randomly chosen αSn\alpha\in S_n is a component of some isotopism (α,β,γ)Atp(n)(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\in\mathrm{Atp}(n). Vanishing-probability conjecture.

limnP(n)=0.\lim_{n\to\infty} \mathbb{P}(n)=0.

This conjecture concerns the asymptotic rarity of permutations that occur as components of autotopisms of Latin squares, complementing the known result that a random Latin square asymptotically almost surely has no nontrivial autotopism. It proposes that the corresponding probability for a random permutation also tends to zero; no resolution is supplied here.

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Douglas S. Stones, Petr Vojtěchovský and Ian M. Wanless, “Cycle structure of autotopisms of quasigroups and Latin squares”, arXiv:1509.05655 (2015).

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