The uniqueness and ATLAS-ordering conjecture for supercharacter theories of cyclic groups of prime order

Let pp be a prime and let rr be a divisor of p1p-1. A supercharacter theory of ZpZ_p is a pair (X,K)(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{K}) of partitions of the irreducible characters and conjugacy classes, respectively. Sort the conjugacy classes and irreducible characters of ZpZ_p according to ATLAS notations, and denote the resulting quantities by γ1(X)\gamma_1(\mathcal{X}) and γ2(K)\gamma_2(\mathcal{K}).

Uniqueness and ATLAS-ordering conjecture. For each divisor rr of p1p-1, there exists exactly one supercharacter theory (X,K)(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{K}) of ZpZ_p such that every non-trivial part of each of X\mathcal{X} and K\mathcal{K} has size rr. Moreover,

γ1(X)=γ2(K).\gamma_1(\mathcal{X})=\gamma_2(\mathcal{K}).

The claim is motivated by the computed supercharacter theories of cyclic groups of prime order and by the stated count of such theories. The supplied text gives no proof or resolution.

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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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