Automorphism conjecture for supercharacter theories with a non-coarsest restriction

Let G=Cp×CpG=C_p\times C_p, and let S\mathsf{S} be a supercharacter theory of GG. Suppose that GG has at least three nontrivial, proper S\mathsf{S}-normal subgroups, and let HH be one of them. Write M(H)\mathsf{M}(H) for the coarsest supercharacter theory of HH.

Automorphism conjecture. If SHM(H)\mathsf{S}_H\neq\mathsf{M}(H), then every subgroup of GG is S\mathsf{S}-normal. In particular, S\mathsf{S} comes from automorphisms.

This would show that a non-coarsest restriction to one normal subgroup forces a highly structured supercharacter theory; the paper reports verification of the related conjecture for primes up to 4747, but the general claim remains open.

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Shawn T. Burkett and Mark L. Lewis, “Toward a Classification of the Supercharacter Theories of C_pC_p”, arXiv:2007.12503 (2020).

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