The Morita-class count conjecture for weight-two blocks of symmetric groups

Let pp be a prime, and let M(p,w)M(p,w) denote the number of Morita equivalence classes of pp-blocks of symmetric groups with weight ww. The blocks of weight 22 are being considered; computations confirm the proposed formula for p11p\leq 11.

Weight-two Morita-class count conjecture.

M(p,2)=12p(2pp1)+12(pp/2).M(p,2)=\frac{1}{2p}\binom{2p}{p-1}+\frac{1}{2}\binom{p}{\lfloor p/2\rfloor}.

This conjecture asserts sharpness of the known upper bound in weight 22. It has been confirmed computationally for primes p11p\leq 11, but the general case remains open.

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Benjamin Sambale, “Morita Equivalent Blocks of Symmetric Groups”, arXiv:1809.07467 (2018).

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