The cardinality conjecture for automorphism groups of superextensions of monogenic semigroups

Let Mr,m\mathrm{M}_{r,m} denote a finite monogenic semigroup, let λ(S)\lambda(S) denote its superextension, and let Aut(G)\operatorname{Aut}(G) denote the automorphism group of a group GG. For integers r,s3r,s\geq 3 and n,m1n,m\geq 1 satisfying r+m=s+nr+m=s+n, consider the automorphism groups of the superextensions associated with Mr,m\mathrm{M}_{r,m} and Ms,n\mathrm{M}_{s,n}. Cardinality conjecture. The groups

Aut(λ(Mr,m))\operatorname{Aut}(\lambda(\mathrm{M}_{r,m}))

and

Aut(λ(Ms,n))\operatorname{Aut}(\lambda(\mathrm{M}_{s,n}))

are isomorphic. This predicts that the automorphism group depends on the common value of r+m=s+nr+m=s+n for the stated range of parameters. The conjecture is based on the computed cases of cardinality at most 55; no resolution is supplied in the source.

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Taras Banakh and Volodymyr Gavrylkiv, “Automorphism groups of superextensions of finite monogenic semigroups”, arXiv:1908.00791 (2019).

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