The sublinear conjugacy-class conjecture for primitive wreath-product subgroups

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Let AA be an almost simple primitive group on mm points appearing in the paper's table of final exceptions, and assume that k(A)<mk(A)<m. For each primitive subgroup G⩽A≀SrG\leqslant A\wr S_r acting on n=mrn=m^r points, write k(G)k(G) for the number of conjugacy classes of GG. Sublinear conjugacy-class conjecture. For every such GG,

k(G)=o(mr)as r→∞.k(G)=o(m^r)\qquad\text{as }r\rightarrow\infty.

The conjecture seeks an improvement over the general bound k(G)<n1.31k(G)<n^{1.31} in the cited theorem. Earlier estimates give the desired conclusion in some cases, but not all, so the assertion is presented as an open conjecture.

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Daniele Garzoni and Nick Gill, “On the number of conjugacy classes of a primitive permutation group with nonabelian socle”, arXiv:2012.05547 (2020).

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