Kantor's nilpotency conjecture for random subgroups of symmetric groups
Let be the symmetric group on points. A random subgroup of means a subgroup chosen uniformly from the finite set of all subgroups of . Kantor's conjecture. As tends to infinity, a random subgroup of is nilpotent, equivalently, the proportion of nilpotent subgroups among all subgroups of tends to .
The source attributes this formulation to Kantor. The supplied material does not establish whether the conjecture is resolved; the paper proves upper bounds for nilpotent subgroups and also notes that for infinitely many the probability of nilpotency is bounded away from , which is relevant to assessing the conjecture's status.
References
Primary source
Colva M. Roney-Dougal and Gareth Tracey, “Subgroups of symmetric groups: enumeration and asymptotic properties”, arXiv:2503.05416 (2025).
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