Liebeck–Nikolov–Shalev conjecture on products of subset conjugates

Let GG be a finite simple group and let AGA\subseteq G be a subset with A2|A|\geq 2. A conjugate of AA means a set gAg1gAg^{-1} for some gGg\in G. Liebeck–Nikolov–Shalev conjecture. There exists an absolute constant NN such that GG is the product of at most

NlogGlogAN\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.

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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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