Cyclotomic-class partition conjecture for products of primes congruent to 11 modulo 66

Let nn be a product of primes, each of which has the form 6k+16k+1. For t>1t>1, let Cos(t)\operatorname{Cos}(t) be the union of all binary 22-cyclotomic classes of size tt, and let NtN_t be the number of those classes. For a,bZ2n1{0}a,b\in\mathbb{Z}_{2^n-1}\setminus\{0\}, write CycΓ(a)\operatorname{Cyc}\Gamma(a) for the union of the cyclotomic classes indexed by the elements of Γ(a)\Gamma(a).

Cyclotomic partition conjecture. For every integer t>1t>1, there are Nt/18N_t/18 pairs (ai,bi)(a_i,b_i), i=1,,Nt/18i=1,\ldots,N_t/18, such that

Cos(t)=˙i(CycΓ(ai)˙CycΓ(bi)˙CycΓ(ai+bi)).\operatorname{Cos}(t)=\dot\bigcup_i\bigl(\operatorname{Cyc}\Gamma(a_i)\,\dot\cup\,\operatorname{Cyc}\Gamma(b_i)\,\dot\cup\,\operatorname{Cyc}\Gamma(a_i+b_i)\bigr).

Such a partition would group the relevant binary cyclotomic classes into triples of six-class configurations and is used to construct symmetric balanced triangle designs. The supplied text gives the assertion as a proposition-like statement but provides no resolution evidence.

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Minjia Shi, Xiaoxiao Li and Denis S. Krotov, “Triangle decompositions of PG(n-1,2)”, arXiv:2407.19157 (2025).

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