Liebeck–Nikolov–Shalev conjecture on products of subset conjugates

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Let GG be a finite simple group and let A⊆GA\subseteq G be a subset with ∣A∣≥2|A|\geq 2. A conjugate of AA means a set gAg−1gAg^{-1} for some g∈Gg\in G. Liebeck–Nikolov–Shalev conjecture. There exists an absolute constant NN such that GG is the product of at most

Nlog⁡∣G∣log⁡∣A∣N\frac{\log|G|}{\log|A|}

conjugates of AA. The conjecture concerns efficient product decompositions in finite simple groups; in the source, its proof is stated to have been completed by Lifshitz, so the conjecture is no longer open.

References

Primary source

Daniele Dona, “Writing finite simple groups of Lie type as products of subset conjugates”, arXiv:2409.11246 (2024).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2408.07800, arXiv:1208.2538, arXiv:1111.3497, arXiv:1108.5130.

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