Twin conjecture for periodic branches of groups of maximal class

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Let p5p\geqslant 5 and write d=p1d=p-1. For sufficiently large nn, consider the branch Bp(n)\mathcal B_p(n) and its pruned subtrees, and call two groups twins if their descendant trees are isomorphic, that is, D(G)D(H)\mathcal D(G)\cong\mathcal D(H). The notation Bp(n,k)\mathcal B_p(n,k) denotes the subtree of groups in Bp(n)\mathcal B_p(n) at depth at most kk, while D(G,m)\mathcal D(G,m) denotes the corresponding pruned descendant tree.

Twin conjecture. There exists n0=n0(p)n_0=n_0(p) such that for all nn0n\geqslant n_0 and each group GG at depth ncn-c in Bp(n+d)\mathcal B_p(n+d), there exists a twin HH at depth ncdn-c-d in Bp(n)\mathcal B_p(n).

This conjecture concerns the second periodicity of the graphs of pp-groups of maximal class beyond the already established first periodicity of their shallow pruned branches. It is described as a main open problem and a driving force of current research.

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Alexander Cant, Heiko Dietrich, Bettina Eick and Tobias Moede, “Galois trees in the graph of p-groups of maximal class”, arXiv:2109.09355 (2021).

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