Babai's thickness conjecture for primitive coherent configurations

Let X\mathfrak{X} be a primitive coherent configuration on nn vertices. For a group GG, its thickness θ(G)\theta(G) is the greatest tt such that the alternating group AtA_t is involved in GG. A Cameron scheme is an orbital configuration of a Cameron group. Babai's thickness conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0, there is some NεN_{\varepsilon} such that if n>Nεn>N_\varepsilon and

θ(Aut(X))nε,\theta(\operatorname{Aut}(\mathfrak{X}))\geq n^{\varepsilon},

then X\mathfrak{X} is a Cameron scheme. This is a thickness formulation of the conjectured classification by large automorphism groups. The paper presents it as open; it is related to bounds connecting thickness, group order, and minimal degree.

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Bohdan Kivva, “On the automorphism groups of distance-regular graphs and rank-4 primitive coherent configurations”, arXiv:1802.06959 (2018).

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