The distinct-count conjecture for supercharacter theories of groups with a fixed number of conjugacy classes

Let Γ(k)\Gamma(k) denote the class of groups considered in the paper having kk conjugacy classes, and let Sup(G)|Sup(G)| denote the number of supercharacter theories of a finite group GG.

Distinct-count conjecture for Γ(k)\Gamma(k). The numbers Sup(G)|Sup(G)| are distinct for all members GG of Γ(k)\Gamma(k) if and only if k=6k=6. When k=6k=6, the groups are

Z5, D14, A5, Z5:Z4, Z7:Z3, S4, D8, and Q8.Z_5,\ D_{14},\ A_5,\ Z_5:Z_4,\ Z_7:Z_3,\ S_4,\ D_8,\text{ and }Q_8.

The conjecture is suggested by the computations summarized in Table 6. The supplied text does not provide a proof or disproof.

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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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