Smooth centralizer property conjecture for finite orthogonal groups

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Let GG be a finite subgroup of O(n)\operatorname{O}(n). Say that GG has the amphichiral linear centralizer property (LCP) if its centralizer in O(n)\operatorname{O}(n) contains an element outside SO(n)\operatorname{SO}(n), and say that GG has the amphichiral smooth centralizer property (SCP) if its centralizer in Diff(Sn1)\operatorname{Diff}(S^{n-1}) contains an orientation-reversing diffeomorphism. Smooth centralizer property conjecture. If GG has SCP, then it has LCP. Equivalently, if the centralizer of GG in Diff(Sn1)\operatorname{Diff}(S^{n-1}) is not contained in Diff+(Sn1)\operatorname{Diff}^{+}(S^{n-1}), then it contains an element of O(n)SO(n)\operatorname{O}(n)\setminus\operatorname{SO}(n). This is an equivalent centralizer formulation relevant to the main conjecture. Since the source gives no resolution beyond the stated low-dimensional result, the general assertion remains open.

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Luis Eduardo García-Hernández and Ben Williams, “Linear and smooth oriented equivalence of orthogonal representations of finite groups”, arXiv:2403.07348 (2024).

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