Guarnieri–Vendramin's quaternion-brace counting conjecture

Let m3m\geq 3, and let q(4m)q(4m) denote the number of braces BB whose multiplicative group (B,)(B,\circ) is a generalised quaternion group of order 4m4m. Guarnieri–Vendramin's conjecture.

q(4m)={2if m is odd,7if m0(mod8),9if m4(mod8),6if m2(mod8) or m6(mod8).q(4m)=\begin{cases} 2 & \text{if }m\text{ is odd},\\ 7 & \text{if }m\equiv 0\pmod{8},\\ 9 & \text{if }m\equiv 4\pmod{8},\\ 6 & \text{if }m\equiv 2\pmod{8}\text{ or }m\equiv 6\pmod{8}. \end{cases}

This conjecture gives the number of braces with a prescribed generalised quaternion multiplicative group. It has recently been proved by Crespo, Gil-Muñoz, Rio and Vela, so the claim is solved.

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Primary source

Nigel P. Byott and Fabio Ferri, “On the number of quaternion and dihedral braces and Hopf–Galois structures”, arXiv:2402.12547 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1801.06911.

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