Serre's congruence subgroup property conjecture

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Let KK be a global field, let SS be a finite set of places, and retain the paper's notation for the corresponding arithmetic group (G,S)({\mathbf{G}},S). The pair has the congruence subgroup property (CSP) when its congruence kernel is finite. Serre's conjecture. The pair (G,S)({\mathbf{G}},S) has CSP if G{\mathbf{G}} is KρK_\rho-isotropic for every ρ∈S−V∞\rho\in S-\mathcal{V}_\infty and

∑ρ∈Srank⁡KρG>1.\sum_{\rho\in S}\operatorname{rank}_{K_\rho}G>1.

The pair (G,S)({\mathbf{G}},S) does not have CSP if

∑ρ∈Srank⁡KρG=1.\sum_{\rho\in S}\operatorname{rank}_{K_\rho}G=1.

This is identified in the source as the main conjecture in the congruence subgroup problem. The supplied text gives no resolution status, so it is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Uriya A. First and Tali Kaufman, “On Good 2-Query Locally Testable Codes from Sheaves on High Dimensional Expanders”, arXiv:2208.01778 (2024).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1807.11449, arXiv:1612.06178, arXiv:1105.2389, arXiv:0803.4165, arXiv:0708.0420.

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