The normal-subgroup conjecture for n-qubit Clifford groups

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Let n3n\geq 3, let Cn\mathcal{C}_n be the nn-qubit Clifford group, and let Pn\mathcal{P}_n be the nn-qubit Pauli group. A normal subgroup of Cn\mathcal{C}_n is a subgroup invariant under conjugation by every element of Cn\mathcal{C}_n.

Normal-subgroup conjecture. When n3n\geq 3, the nn-qubit Pauli group Pn\mathcal{P}_n is the only non-trivial proper normal subgroup of Cn\mathcal{C}_n.

This conjecture describes the expected normal-subgroup structure of the Clifford group in the indicated range of nn; the supplied source material gives no resolution beyond presenting it as an observation expected to hold generally.

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Primary source

Chin-Yen Lee, Wei-Hsuan Yu, Yung-Ning Peng and Ching-Jui Lai, “On character table of Clifford groups”, arXiv:2309.14850 (2023).

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