Kantor's nilpotency conjecture for random subgroups of symmetric groups

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Let Sn\mathrm{S}_n be the symmetric group on nn points. A random subgroup of Sn\mathrm{S}_n means a subgroup chosen uniformly from the finite set of all subgroups of Sn\mathrm{S}_n. Kantor's conjecture. As nn tends to infinity, a random subgroup of Sn\mathrm{S}_n is nilpotent, equivalently, the proportion of nilpotent subgroups among all subgroups of Sn\mathrm{S}_n tends to 11.

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 nn the probability of nilpotency is bounded away from 11, which is relevant to assessing the conjecture's status.

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Colva M. Roney-Dougal and Gareth Tracey, “Subgroups of symmetric groups: enumeration and asymptotic properties”, arXiv:2503.05416 (2025).

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