The stronger finite-space form of Webb's conjecture for elementary abelian p-subgroups
The stronger finite-space form of Webb's conjecture for elementary abelian p-subgroups
Let be a finite group and let be a prime dividing . Let be the poset of non-trivial elementary abelian -subgroups of , and let denote its poset subdivision, consisting of non-empty chains. The quotient is regarded as a finite topological space.
Stronger Webb conjecture. The finite space
is contractible.
This strengthens Webb's reformulation, which only asserts that this quotient is homotopically trivial. The authors report that no non-contractible example is known and prove contractibility in particular cases, but leave the general statement conjectural.
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Kevin Ivan Piterman, “A stronger reformulation of Webb's conjecture in terms of finite topological spaces”, arXiv:1805.09374 (2018).
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