The bad-part density limit conjecture for cyclic and dihedral groups

Let BP(G)BP(G) be the set of bad parts of a finite group GG, let α(G)=BP(G)2κ(G)11\alpha(G)=\frac{|BP(G)|}{2^{\kappa(G)-1}-1}, and let pnp_n be the nn-th prime number. Define

βn=α(Zpn),γn=α(D2pn).\beta_n=\alpha(Z_{p_n}),\qquad \gamma_n=\alpha(D_{2p_n}).

Bad-part density limit conjecture.

limnβn=limnγn=1.\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\beta_n=\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\gamma_n=1.

The conjecture is suggested by computations for cyclic and dihedral groups, asserting that the proportion of bad parts tends to 11 along these prime-indexed families. The supplied text does not establish a proof or disproof; it later notes that analogous calculations for groups of order 3p3p do not support the conjecture in that broader setting.

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A. R. Ashrafi, L. Ghanbari Maman, K. Kavousi and F. Koorepazan Moftakhar, “An Algorithm for Constructing All Supercharacter Theories of a Finite Group”, arXiv:1911.12232 (2019).

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