Allocca et al.'s three-reflection bound for dihedral groups
Allocca et al.'s three-reflection bound for dihedral groups
Let be the dihedral group, with order- cyclic subgroup generated by the usual rotation. Let be a generating set composed of three involutions, none of which belongs to this cyclic subgroup. For and —wait, the quantity needed here is defined by
Here is the minimal number of elements of whose product is . Allocca et al.'s conjecture. For every such generating set,
This conjecture extends the previously proved existence result for a suitable three-reflection generating set to all three-reflection generating sets. The source does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.
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Michael Allocca and Max Trimmer, “Perturbation Effects on Word Lengths in Three-Reflection Symmetric Presentations of Dihedral Groups”, arXiv:2506.19216 (2025).
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