Arad–Herzog conjecture on products of non-trivial conjugacy classes

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Let GG be a non-abelian finite simple group. A non-trivial conjugacy class is a conjugacy class other than the identity class. For n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N} with n≥2n\geq 2, consider the product of nn non-trivial conjugacy classes of GG.

Arad–Herzog conjecture. This product is not a conjugacy class.

The conjecture generalizes the original assertion of Z. Arad and M. Herzog for the product of two classes. It has been confirmed for several families of finite simple groups, including sporadic simple groups, and for squares of a conjugacy class; the general case remains open.

References

Primary source

Antonio Beltrán, Rachel Deborah Camina, María José Felipe and Carmen Melchor, “Powers of conjugacy classes in a finite group”, arXiv:2402.06703 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1202.2627.

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